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Lecturing

Lecture \Lec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lectured (-t[-u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lecturing.]

  1. To read or deliver a lecture to.

  2. To reprove formally and with authority.

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lecturing

n. The act of delivering a lecture or harangue. vb. (present participle of lecture English)

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lecturing

n. teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) [syn: lecture]

Usage examples of "lecturing".

He telegraphed the grim news to Julia comshe was lecturing in Macon, Georgia-then went to the burned-out shell of the Union Depot to catch a passenger train east.

Noble knew he should be lecturing his unruly wife on the dangerous nature of London at night.

He spent a little time lecturing her on the magnitude of his generosity in forgiving her transgressions.

I appreciate you not lecturing me about interfering with your plans, but you were acting so very foolish, and I simply had to take steps.

Moreover, he was lecturing all over England, and this brought him into contact with all sorts of strange religious beliefs.

Debating and lecturing went on, and an amusing letter from Bernard Shaw shows the preparations for a Three Star Show--Shaw against Chesterton with Belloc in the chair--in 1911.

For beside lecturing, journalism and the publication of three considerable and two minor books, Chesterton between 1911 and the War wrote the play that Shaw had been so insistently demanding.

Their second visit to America in 1930-31 was far better enjoyed by Gilbert, and also I think by Frances until she got ill, because on it they came much closer to the real people of the country, especially during the period when he was lecturing at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

University of Notre Dame where he had been lecturing and which turned his musings in a direction they were ever inclined to take.

I remember that I am lecturing to the members of a chemical society who are not for the most part versed in advanced mathematics.

In lecturing on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers of fiction Nabokov was completely in his element.

I had labored hard against the infidel socialists, lecturing against them in almost all the large towns in the kingdom, and I was, to a great extent, the means of breaking up their societies.

I was lecturing against the infidel Socialists, previous to my expulsion.

I walked six, eight, or ten miles daily, carrying my bag and books along with me, and preaching, or lecturing and discussing, every night.

Hearing that I was lecturing at Dudley, they hastened to the meeting, and got there just in time to hear my opponent mention their names in support of his charge of inconsistency.