PRELATURE; PRELATURESHIP Prel"a*ture, Prel"a*ture*ship, n. Etym: [F. prélature, or LL. praelatura.]
Defn: The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy. Milman.
PRELATY
Prel"a*ty, n.
Defn: Prelacy. [Obs.] Milton.
PRELECT
Pre*lect" v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prelected; p. pr. & vb. n. Prelecting.]
Etym: [L. praelectus, p. p. of praelegere to read before. See Pre-,
and Lection.]
Defn: To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
PRELECT
Pre*lect", v. i.
Defn: To discourse publicly; to lecture.
Spitting . . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey.
To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.
PRELECTION
Pre*lec"tion, n. Etym: [L. praelectio.]
Defn: A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
"The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.