Word Finder - lecturing

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To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

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The professor lectured to two classes this morning.

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To preach, to berate, to scold.

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Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.

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The act of delivering a lecture or harangue.

She made her living selling her art and guest lecturing at colleges.

While thus engaged he determined to trace the history and describe the existing condition of each of the arts and sciences on which he was lecturing, being perhaps incited by the Bibliothecae of Albrecht von Haller.

His preaching and lecturing drew great crowds both in the Dominion and in the United States, and he was five times president of the Canadian conference.

During the last years of his life Dr Talmage ceased to preach, and devoted himself to editing, writing and lecturing.

He threw himself with characteristic energy into his new work, visiting, preaching and lecturing in every part of his diocese.

It was understood, however, that Garrison would do most of the editorial work, while Lundy would spend most of his time in lecturing and procuring subscribers.

Garrison countenanced the activity of women in the cause, even to the extent of allowing them to vote and speak in the anti-slavery societies, and appointing them as lecturing agents; moreover, he believed in the political equality of the sexes, to which a strong party was opposed upon social and religious grounds.

Subsequently he appears to have travelled in the East (Petra and Egypt) and to have made himself famous by lecturing in the great cities of the Mediterranean.

After a childhood spent in an austerity which stigmatized as unholy even the novels of Sir Walter Scott, he began his college career at the age of fourteen at a time when Christopher North and Dr Ritchie were lecturing on Moral Philosophy and Logic. His first philosophical advance was stimulated by Thomas Brown's Cause and Effect, which introduced him to the problems which were to occupy his thought.

Besides the abolition of tests, effected by the act of 1871, many of the reforms there suggested, such as the revival of the faculties, the reorganization of the professoriate, the abolition of celibacy as a condition of the tenure of fellowships, and the combination of the colleges for lecturing purposes, were incorporated in the act of 1877, or subsequently adopted by the university.

Finally, in 1838, the unrestricted right of lecturing was restored to him.

Later, in 1804, we find him with a class of about thirty, lecturing on his whole system; but his average attendance was rather less.

He became a writer and lecturer on socialism and was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor party from 1874 to 1884, then devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing until his appointment to a post in the bureau of labour statistics.

When the shock of his son's death incapacitated him from lecturing during the session of 1809-1810, his place was taken, at his own request, by Dr Thomas Brown, who in 1810 was appointed conjoint professor.

After lecturing in her native city, Hypatia ultimately became the recognized head of the Neoplatonic school there (c. 400).

In 1889-1890 she went on a lecturing tour in the United States.

In 1713 he produced a reformed liturgy, and soon afterwards founded a society for promoting primitive Christianity, lecturing in support of his theories at London, Bath and Tunbridge Wells.

As the leading "aesthete," Oscar Wilde became one of the most prominent personalities of the day; apart from the ridicule he encountered, his affected paradoxes and his witty sayings were quoted on all sides, and in 1882 he went on a lecturing tour in the United States.

The year 1851, while he was lecturing on physiology at Konigsberg, saw the brilliant invention of the ophthalmoscope, an instrument which has been of inestimable value to medicine.

In 1818 he resumed his labours at Emmitsburg, and from this time until 1834 he held an almost unparalleled place in the American church, being constantly consulted by clergy throughout the country, besides lecturing, teaching, preaching and caring for his parish.

He hated lecturing, and was bored with the importunities of the fanatical preachers; and in 1574 he returned to France, and made his home for the next twenty years with Chastaigner.

He hated lecturing, and there were those among his friends who erroneously believed that with the success of Henry IV.

The combatants were fully deployed, and their battle was the first example of the form that has ' For example, a British officer lecturing at the staff college on his return from Thrace told his hearers that the Bulgarian 7th Div.

In 1832 he returned to Tubingen and became repetent in the university, lecturing on logic, history of philosophy, Plato, and history of ethics, with great success.

A few months after his marriage he published the first and only volume of his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, with a dedication to his wife, and was also re-elected professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, though he would not pledge himself to deliver lectures, explaining that he wished to be free from the routine of lecturing in order to have more time for original work.

On lecturing tours she and her husband travelled as far west as Indiana and into Maryland and Virginia.

From the lycee he passed to the Normal School of Paris, where Laromiguiere was then lecturing on philosophy.

He continued, however, to contribute articles to the North British Review, which, previously a Scottish Free Church organ, had been acquired by friends in sympathy with him, and which for some years (until 1872, when it ceased to appear) actively promoted the interests of a high-class Liberalism in both temporal and ecclesiastical matters; he also did a good deal of lecturing on historical subjects.

In December 1660 he was serving as tutor of Christ Church, lecturing in Greek, rhetoric and philosophy.

Besides his lecturing and literary labours, Sidgwick took an active part in the business of the university, and in many forms of social and philanthropic work.

In 1838 he opposed the interference in civil matters of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he belonged, and in consequence was, during the last three years of his life, interdicted from lecturing on the philosophy of religion.

In 1583 he was_ appointed by the Edinburgh town council sole regent of the "town's college" ("Academia Jacobi Sexti," afterwards the university of Edinburgh), and three years later he received from the same source the title of "principal, or first master," and was engaged in lecturing on philosophy.

Cremonini, the last of them, died in 1631, after lecturing twelve years at Ferrara, and forty at Padua.

Here he continued his practice of lecturing on the books of the Bible; and he soon afterwards established a perpetual divinity lecture, on three days in each week, in St Paul's church.

He still pursued his quiet round of lecturing and authorship, and contributed from time to time papers to the literary journals.

She was touring France and lecturing on behalf of anarchist propaganda when she died at Marseilles on the 10th of January 1905.

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Professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) is lecturing in Paris when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder case.

Also informed by his appearence on at the ICA on the panel debate dying of Consumption and lecturing at the Royal Institution.

He was back in the UK in December, lecturing again on the theme of imperial federation.

Lucy continues to expand the gallery, as well as lecturing and writing on the subject and designing ironwork for individual clients.

Needless to say none of us were awake for the first hour or two of lecturing.

I joined the Department in 1990 after lecturing at Glasgow University where I taught Older and Modern Scots, Old English and Germanic philology.

The standard of lecturing and support at St Andrews is outstanding with courses covering subjects relevant to today's photonics industry.

None of which things matter much save in partially explaining the motives and expectations of Dr. Porteous in his somewhat spasmodic lecturing career.

Through his writing and extensive lecturing around the United States, he helped make theosophy known and respected.

He'd injured his face in a climbing accident and was quite unintelligible, but no-one liked to ask him to stop lecturing.

This periodical, first a monthly and later a weekly, was published successively in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania, though it appeared irregularly, and at times, when Lundy was away on lecturing tours, was issued from any office that was accessible to him.

In 1687 he made the daring innovation of lecturing in German instead of Latin, and in the following year published a monthly periodical (Scherzhafte and ernsthafte, verniinftige and einfdltige Gedanken ilber allerhand lustige and niitzliche Bucher and Fragen) in which he ridiculed the pedantic weaknesses of the learned, taking the side of the Pietists in their controversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and Calvinists.

There is no record of Paracelsus' knowledge of Greek, and as, at least in his student days, the most important works of Greek medicine were very imperfectly known, it is probable he had little first hand acquaintance with Galen or Hippocrates, while his breach with the humanists is the more conspicuous from his lecturing and writing chiefly in his native German.