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unlectured en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + lectured.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a person: not instructed by lectures.
    • Her eyes the movements of her heart declare, For what she dares to be, she dares appear; Unlectured in dissimulation's school, To smile by precept, and to blush by rule, […] 1827, Hannah More, Sacred Dramas: The Search After Happiness: and Other Poems:
    • The average marks of group N (the unlectured) for the first and second slide were 17½ and 31 (medians 15 and 29) […] 2013, Charles Fox, Educational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods, page 63:
  2. (archaic, not-comparable) Of a subject or topic: not taught.
    • Lorenzo, hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh, Or studied the philosophy of tears? (A science yet unlectured in our schools :) […] 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M[ary] Cooper […], →OCLC: