Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To vex with lectures: admonish persistently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
vex withlectures ; to lecture frequently.
Etymologies
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be- + lecture
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Examples
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Repeatedly it has come into my head that I should go to America, this very Fall, and belecture you from North to South till I learn it!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Repeatedly it has come into my head that I should go to America, this very Fall, and belecture you from North to South till I learn it!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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