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Lector   /lˈɛktər/   Listen
Lector

noun
1.
Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church.  Synonym: reader.
2.
A public lecturer at certain universities.  Synonyms: lecturer, reader.






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"Lector" Quotes from Famous Books



... only fragments of which are extant. The first real church history was written by Eusebius of Caesarea in the early part of the 4th century. His work was continued in the 5th century by Philostorgius, Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, and in later centuries by Theodorus Lector, Evagrius, Theophanes and others. In the 14th century Nicephorus Callisti undertook a complete church history which covers in its extant form the first six centuries. In the West Eusebius' History was translated into ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... said quite that, Lector, though perhaps I might almost have gone so far. What I did say was that we have been accustomed to exaggerate its importance to us here and now, that it really matters less ...
— Prose Fancies (Second Series) • Richard Le Gallienne

... held at Clane the year of his consecration; it was attended by twenty-six prelates and many other ecclesiastics. The college of Armagh was then virtually raised to the rank of a university, as it was decreed that no one, who had not been an alumnus of Armagh, should be appointed lector or professor of theology in any of the diocesan schools in Ireland. Indeed, the clergy at this period were most active in promoting the interests of religion, and most successful in their efforts, little ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack



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