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plural lectures
A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group. quotations examples
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
(by extension) A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university. examples
A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner. examples
(obsolete) The act of reading.
third-person singular simple present lectures, present participle lecturing, simple past and past participle lectured
(transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic. examples
(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold. quotations examples
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18