[f. LECTURE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. LECTURE.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Some Special. in Life, 42 Rem. Wks. (1660). Complaining of … my too much liberty of frequent Lecturings.
1694. Acts Gen. Assembly, 10. That the ministers … shall in their exercise of lecturing read and open up to people some large and considerable portion of the Word of God.
1841. in Mem. G. Ewing (1847), xvi. 610. That department of pulpit ministrations called in Scotland lecturing, which is so universal in the north, and so strangely rare in the south.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., vii. (1889), 60. A little mild expostulation or lecturing.
1892. Athenæum, 9 July, 53/3. Sir Robert Ball’s chapter on the observatory is … composed with that skill which has made his public lecturing so famous.
attrib. 1817. Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXII. 358. There is now to be … no Lecturing place … without a Licence.
1818. Mrs. Shelley, Frankenst., ii. I went into the lecturing room.
