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Belecture
Belecture Be*lec"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belectured; p. pr. & vb. n. Belecturing.] To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
Belectured
Belecture Be*lec"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belectured; p. pr. & vb. n. Belecturing.] To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
Belecturing
Belecture Be*lec"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belectured; p. pr. & vb. n. Belecturing.] To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
Cimex Lectularius
Bedbug Bed"bug`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
Cimex lectularius
Chinch Chinch, n. [Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius). 2. (Zo["o]l.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
Clinical lecture
Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
Curtain lecture
Curtain Cur"tain (k?r"t?n; 48), n. [OE. cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See Court.] 1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. 2. (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. 3. (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. 4. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Shak. Behind the curtain, in concealment; in secret. Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. --Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. --W. Irving. The curtain falls, the performance closes. The curtain rises, the performance begins. To draw the curtain, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. To drop the curtain, to end the tale, or close the performance.
Delectus
Delectus De*lec"tus, n. [L., selection, from deligere, delectum, to select.] A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. --G. Eliot.
G neglectus
Cricket Crick"et (kr?k"?t), n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.] (Zo["o]l.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. Note: The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are G. niger, G. neglectus, and others. Balm cricket. See under Balm. Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.
Intellectual
Intellectual In`tel*lec"tu*al, n. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. --Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. --De Quincey.
Intellectual
Intellectual In`tel*lec"tu*al (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.] 1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. --I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity? --Milton. 3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called ``mental' philosophy.
Intellectualism
Intellectualism In`tel*lec"tu*al*ism, n. 1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. 2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
Intellectualist
Intellectualist In`tel*lec"tu*al*ist, n. 1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] --Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
Intellectualize
Intellectualize In`tel*lec"tu*al*ize, v. t. 1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. --Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
Intellectually
Intellectually In`tel*lec"tu*al*ly, adv. In an intellectual manner.
Lectual
Lectual Lec"tu*al (-t[-u]*al), a. [LL. lectualis, fr. L. lectus bed.] (Med.) Confining to the bed; as, a lectual disease.
Lecture
Lecture Lec"ture (-t[-u]r; 135), n. [F. lecture, LL. lectura, fr. L. legere, lectum, to read. See Legend.] 1. The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. [Obs.] 2. A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon. 3. A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority. 4. (Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson.
Lecture
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. 2. To reprove formally and with authority.
Lecture
Lecture Lec"ture, v. i. To deliver a lecture or lectures.
Lectured
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. 2. To reprove formally and with authority.
Lecturer
Lecturer Lec"tur*er (-[~e]r), n. One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
Lectureship
Lectureship Lec"ture*ship, n. The office of a lecturer.
Lecturing
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. 2. To reprove formally and with authority.
Lecturn
Lecturn Lec"turn (l[e^]k"t[u^]rn), n. [LL. lectrinum, fr. lectrum; cf. L. legere, lectum, to read.] A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.] --Fairholt.
Superintellectual
Superintellectual Su`per*in`tel*lec"tu*al, a. Being above intellect.

Meaning of LECTU from wikipedia

- "Difficile lectu", K. 559, is a canon composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The music, in F major, is set for three singers. The words are most likely...
- Algibacter lectus is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, heterotrophic and motile bacterium from the genus Algibacter which has been isolated from...
- d' Hetz", K. 558, for four voices. (Score). 1788 or earlier. Difficile lectu mihi Mars, K. 559, for three voices. (Score). C. 1786–1787. O du eselhafter...
- Orocrambus lectus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1929. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it has been recorded...
- swimming, Colymbetes, sive de arte natandi dialogus et festivus et iucundus lectu (The Swimmer, or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming and Joyful and Pleasant...
- sung immediately following "Difficile lectu". For the tale of how these two canons originated, see "Difficile lectu". Mozart later transposed "O du eselhafter...
- work was the political treatise De libertate politica sive civili libellus lectu non indignus (lit. 'A little book on political or civil liberty, not unworthy...
- error about the Goethe source: the line occurs in the third act. "Difficile lectu" – a canon with a disguised Latin version of the same text "Bona nox" –...
- various kinds of beds for repose. These included: lectus cubicularis, or chamber bed, for normal sleeping lectus genialis, the marriage bed, it was much decorated...
- that Mozart was a decent man! "Leck mich im Arsch", K. 231 "Difficile lectu mihi mars", K. 559 "Bona nox", K. 561 Mozart and scatology The Mozart misattribution...