Word Meanings - PRELECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.

READERSHIP
The office of reader. Lyell.
READER
1. One who reads. Specifically: One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. A proof reader. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
LECTURER
One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
LECTURESHIP
The office of a lecturer.
THREADER
1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
SUBREADER
An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. Crabb.
BLIND READER
A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.
DISPREADER
One who spreads abroad. Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton.
LAY READER
A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church.
SPREADER
1. One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates. 2. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
DREADER
One who fears, or lives in fear.
TREADER
One who treads. Isa. xvi. 10.