1.
[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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "lecturing":
autodidactic, coeducational, cultural, debating, declamation,
demagogism, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating,
educational, educative, elocution, eloquence, enlightening,
exhortatory, forensics, homiletic, homiletics, hortatory,
illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory,
oratory, platform oratory, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic,
public speaking, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rhetoric,
self-teaching, speaking, speechcraft, speechification, speeching,
speechmaking, stump speaking, teaching, tuitionary, wordcraft