As was said above, the various exercises (the "prelection", memory lessons, compositions, repetitions, and contests) are the means of training the mind. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
When tired of his lecture, they either began to yawn, or open their mouths in imitation of that act, and the prelection was interrupted. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus prelection appertaining to virtue and morality is now over. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
I was then horribly out of humor from an irritating prelection, and I felt towards Monsieur Legouvé that sort of vexation the unlucky feel towards the lucky, the poor towards the rich, the hunchbacks towards handsome men, and the awkward towards the adroit. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the lower grades it means "explanation", but, as it has some special features, it is best to retain the word in an English dress as "prelection". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
To have heard Dr. William Adams of New York at his best was better than any lecture on “Homiletics”; to have met him at the fireside or in the sick room of one of his parishioners was a prelection in pastoral theology. ❋ Cuyler, Theodore L (1902)
Though with a glittering eye and a strong flush on his cheek, he conserved a deliberate incidental manner, and maintained a pose of extreme interest in his own prelection as, seated in an arm-chair before the fire he began to talk with a very definite intention of a quiet self-assertion, of absorbing and controlling the conversation. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
He would take a handful of golden sentences -- things wisely thought and finely said by persons having authority -- and spin them into an exquisite prelection; so that his work with all the finish of art retains a something of the freshness of those elemental truths on which it was his humour to dilate. ❋ William Ernest Henley (1876)
Thaumaste, and merely linking his own prelection to the last by a few flippant criticisms. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
Germans say, ganz fortre flich; and I could not leave this place without testifying unto you what inward emotions I have undergone during your edifying prelection; and how I am touched to the quick, that I should yesterday, during the refection, have seemed to infringe on the respect due to such a person as yourself. '' ❋ Unknown (1871)
But our guide has finished his prelection here, and is striding off in the plenitude of his wisdom. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
Was it reasonable to have assembled six, ten, or a dozen persons for the purpose of hearing a prelection? ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
Scottish judge's prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular. ❋ Unknown (1810)
GANZ FORTRE FLICH; and I could not leave this place without testifying unto you what inward emotions I have undergone during your edifying prelection; and how I am touched to the quick, that I should yesterday, during the refection, have seemed to infringe on the respect due to such ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Lord Carlisle commenced his able and eloquent prelection by deploring the fact, that Pope had sunk in estimation. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)
High Germans say, GANZ FORTRE FLICH; and I could not leave this place without testifying unto you what inward emotions I have undergone during your edifying prelection; and how I am touched to the quick, that I should yesterday, during the refection, have seemed to infringe on the respect due to such a person as yourself.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
's poetry; for, certainly in order to make one's self appear sleepy in company, or occasionally to induce sleep, nothing could be more efficacious than a slight prelection of his poems. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)
♦ she not only denies the right of prelection to the naturalized perfoo againft his owrjt fovereign, but denies to neutrals the right to natnralize her enemies fo as to protect them againft her arms — and autharifes the feizure of her own seamen on board neutral vessels at Tea. ❋ Unknown (1812)
