lecture

(lek’tur), v.; pret. and pp. lectured, ppr. lecturing. [ lecturer or curates, chosen in some parishes by the vestry or chief inhabitants of the parish, with the eonsent of the incumbent, and supported by voluntary subscriptions and legacies. Lecturers usually preach at evening prayer on Sunday, and sometimes officiate on some stated day during the week. If there had been no Lecturers (which succeed the Friers in their way), the Church of England might have stood and flourisht at this day. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 51. I am not altogether so rustick, and nothing so irreligious, but as farre distant from a Lecturer as the meerest Laick, for any consecrating hand of a Prelat that shall ever touch me. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 8. In English and American colonial history, a person appointed by municipal or parish authority to deliver a periodical lecture, usually on Sun days or market-days.