The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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To aim; to direct.
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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
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Arranged; furnished; provided.
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The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…
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Pedagogics; pedagogism.
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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…
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Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.
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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
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Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or i…
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of Teach
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To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
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To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
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To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…
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To chide; to reprove.
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To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to d…
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To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
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of Preach
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A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
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One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
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One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
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The office of a lecturer.
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The office of a lecturer.
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A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…
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The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
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To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
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To beat severely.
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of Lecture
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…
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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
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To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to sco…
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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
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