Meanings of lect in English

In the words rec-ol-lect' and rep-re-sent', the third syllable is accented.

I've helped 'lect mor'n one feller t' office in my day.

Then, after a pause, she added,-'What d'ye 'lect that darky Linkum for President for?'

The Republican party would lect them and the Democratic party roust them out of office.

See note 20, in Archer Butler, series i. lect vi.]

Is you gwine ter 'lect de gov'nor?

Wundt's Human and Animal Psychology, lect.

Come the second run the Gin'ral made, peered like Henry set out to 'lect him all by hisself.

Spirit of Masonry, lect.

W. Fite, Individualism, lect.

The dead bodies were thick on the battlefield; there was no time to col- lect them and provide a proper burial.

Why, dat ar' boy is one o' de 'lect,-it'sjest as clare to me; and de 'lect has got to come in,-dat'swhat I say.

Accent, marked thus ('), is an increased force of voice upon some one syllable of a word; as, Col'o-ny, bot'a-ny; re-mem'ber, im-por'tant; rec-ol-lect', rep-re-sent'.

See Merivale, The Conversion of the Roman Empire, Lect.

If you fellers thought ye 'lected a chump, this is the time you git left.

This work is published by Canisius, Lect.