/lek"cheuhr/ , n. , v. , lectured, lecturing .
n.
1. a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, esp. for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
2. a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct; a long, tedious reprimand.
v.i.
3. to give a lecture or series of lectures: He spent the year lecturing to various student groups.
v.t.
4. to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.
5. to rebuke or reprimand at some length: He lectured the child regularly but with little effect.
[ 1375-1425; late ME lectura a reading. See LECTION, -URE ]
Syn. 1. address, talk, paper, oratim, discourse. 4. address, teach. 5. admonish; hector.