Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class);
[syn: lecture, lecturing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. To reprove formally and with authority.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lecturing
n 1: teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically
to a class) [syn: lecture, lecturing]