lecturize

English

Alternative forms

• lecturise

Etymology

lecture +‎ -ize

Verb

lecturize (third-person singular simple present lecturizes, present participle lecturizing, simple past and past participle lecturized)

1. (intransitive) To lecture or preach; to hold forth.
   • 1643, Alexander Brome, The Saint's Encouragement:

     We subjects' liberties preserve By prisonment and plunder, And do enrich ourselves and state By keeping the wicked under. We must preserve mechanics now, To lecturize and pray; By them the gospel is advanced, The clean contrary way.

   • 1956, World Affairs - Volume 119, page 54:

     The habit of quick decision, the radiness to assume responsibility, the education, broad reading, sense of topography and its effects, and especially the wise consideration of experience, both of others and himself, necessary to make a successful military leader, are all brought out in this book without being didactic or lecturizing.

   • 1974, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations:

     The SPARK program hypothesises that nothing turns off a kid more than some adult going into a sermonizing and lecturizing and a scarifying kind of a thing.

2. (transitive) To deliver a lecture to; to lecture at.
   • 1920, Topics - Volumes 1-2, page 106:

     How often, in the course of lecturizing the state, will the awful fate of Ulysses S. Grant be cited as an example of death due to cigars?

   • 1950, Genesee Country Scrapbook - Volumes 1-9, page 10:

     At Bristol Center he was happy to report that they were among those present and he was going to “lecturize the Fair Maids of this place on their health.”

3. (transitive) To lecture about; to communicate as an act of lecturing.
   • 1845, Nimshi, the adventures of a man to obtain a solution of Scriptural Geology to gauge the vast ages of Planetary Concretion and to open Bab-Allah - the Gate of God, page 177:

     I shall not, therefore, decline the opportunity and expediency of lecturizing this solid aphorism to your undeviating and ethical attention, as you range the ethereous paths of immortal excursions.

   • 1975, Harvey J Sepler, The effectiveness of verbal instruction on teaching behavior modification skills to nonprofessionals (Master's Thesis - Western Michigan University), page 12:

     Data for Group A show an increase in interactions from 150 and 64 during pre-treatment to an average of 173 and 160 following the institution of lecturized training.

   • 2003, Journal of Mental Imagery - Volume 27, page 31:

     The techniques provide rich contextual information that is not drawn merely from graphic symbols printed on a page, which most often are "fragmented" facts to be remembered mostly by memorization; nor is it "lecturized" verbal information that may go in one ear and out the other.

Usage notes

This term is a synonym of lecture, but carries more of a connotation of preachiness.