Educational talks given to an audience, typically students, or formal reprimands or lengthy criticisms delivered to someone.
From Latin 'lectura' meaning 'a reading', from 'legere' meaning 'to read'. Originally, lectures were literally readings from texts since books were rare and expensive in medieval universities.
The first university lectures were actually just professors reading aloud from the few available books while students took notes, since printing didn't exist yet. The scolding sense of 'lecture' developed because these educational talks were often morally instructive.
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