lecture

An exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, as for the purpose of instruction.

An earnest admonition or reproof; a reprimand.

To deliver a lecture or series of lectures.

To deliver a lecture to (a class or audience).

To admonish or reprove earnestly, often at length.

To instruct by oral discourse.

To speak to or address dogmatically or authoritatively; reprimand; reprove: as, to lecture one for his faults.

To influence by means of a lecture or formal reprimand: as, he was lectured into doing his duty.

To read or deliver a formal discourse; give instruction by oral discourse: as, to lecture on geometry or on chemistry.

The act of reading; reading.