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Definition of Lector
1. Noun. Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. Noun. A public lecturer at certain universities.
Generic synonyms: Educator, Pedagog, Pedagogue
Derivative terms: Lecture
Definition of Lector
1. n. A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.
Definition of Lector
1. Noun. A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service ¹
2. Noun. A public lecturer or reader at some universities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lector
1. a reader of the lessons in a church service [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lector
1. A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate. Origin: L. See Lection. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lector
Literary usage of Lector
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The position of the lector in the congregation was consequently an ... During the
early centuries the lector appears to have been reckoned with the ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"Par Lucius lector. Paris, 1894. 3. Papal Conclaves. By VV. ... Finally, the recent
work on Papal Conclaves by Lucius lector is at once interesting and ..."
3. On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art by Robert Graves (1922)
"lector MR. POETA was a child of impulse, and though not really a very careful
student of Chaucer himself, was incensed one day at reading a literary article ..."
4. Seminary Addresses and Other Papers by Solomon Schechter (1915)
"IN THE death of lector M. Friedmann, or as he preferably signed himself in his
Hebrew works, Meir Ish Shalom (Meir, Man of Peace), Judaism has sustained an ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"lector In the company in enforcing euch regulations does not lie. [No. 273.]
Submitted Apr. £4, 1885. Decided Hay 4,1885. A PPEAL from the Circuit Court of ..."
6. The Grey Friars in Oxford: Part I: A History of the Convent, Part II by Andrew George Little (1892)
"The position of both lector and socius will be best illustrated by two extracts
from the letters of Adam Marsh. In the first of these 3, addressed to the ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"After fourteen years of study, he became lector of theology, which office he
filled for several years. In 1296 ne was elected Master General of the Order. ..."
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