0 past simple and past participle of lecture --
1 to give a formal talk to a group of people, often at a college or university: --
Then we lectured them, and we seemed arrogant.
This great industry in the last year or two has been lectured and guided by schoolmasters and tonsorial artists, or barbers.
We have been lectured about fair play, and so on.
My husband lectured formerly in its university and is now an honorary fellow.
I do not mind being lectured by these correspondents, because it seems to me that, in a sense, they are talking rather serious nonsense.
Jessup had been a student at the academy in 1923 and lectured there in 1929.
I have lectured to second-year students about pointer algorithms, using a refinement calculus of pre- and postconditions.
Consequently, when the children do not achieve what the parents hoped, they will be lectured or criticised.
