prelector

English

Alternative forms

prælector (archaic)
praelector

Etymology

From Latin praelēctor.

Noun

prelector (plural prelectors)

A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
- 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, pages 38 (A Second Prelude Shewing Briefely that miracles are not certaine tokens of a true Religion) and 178 (Wherein is examined M^r. Floods fifth Reason):
  […] it is ſufficient for me, that their ſo famous a Prælectour, doth teach that by Artes Magicke, the ſame workes are done, which are done by the gift of working miracles. […] Thus this famous Prelectour, by which it is euident, that howſoeuer the Spaniſh; and Papall Emperour, haue drawne them into their ſubiection, they haue not done the ſame by the power of miracles and integritie of life, but only by dint of ſword; […]

Related terms

prelect

References

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Prelector, præ-”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1277, column 3.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prelector”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)