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74 words match “LECTOR”

LECTOR n.
A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.
ALECTORIDES n.
A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
ALECTOROMACHY n.
Cockfighting.
ALECTOROMANCY n.
See Alectryomancy.
COLLECTOR n. 5 definitions
siness or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.
COLLECTORATE n.
The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
COLLECTORSHIP n.
The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
DEFLECTOR n.
That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
DIALECTOR n.
One skilled in dialectics.
ELECTOR a. 5 definitions
Pertaining to an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice Preside…
ELECTORALITY n.
The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
ELECTORATE n. 2 definitions
The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
ELECTORESS n.
An electress. Bp. Burnet.
ELECTORIAL a.
Electoral. Burke.
ELECTORSHIP n.
The office or status of an elector.
FLECTOR n.
A flexor.
PRELECTOR n.
A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.
REFLECTOR n. 4 definitions
One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle.
SELECTOR n.
One who selects.
ANTIQUIST n.
An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] Pinkerton.
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