Usually means: Reading selected for church service.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. lection: Merriam-Webster
  2. lection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lection, lection: Wordnik
  6. lection: Wiktionary
  7. lection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. lection: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Lection, lection: Dictionary.com
  10. Lection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Lection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. lection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Lection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. lection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. lection: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lection: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. lection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. lection (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -lection: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lection)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) The act of reading.
▸ noun:  (ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.

Similar:
lecture, read, readeption, reread, reception, redition, recitement, choose, readthrough, receipt, more...

Opposite:
non-reading, unreading, neglect

Adjectives:
ref, col, prophetic, torah, first, last, new, next, vertical, def, longitudinal



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Similar:
lecture, read, readeption, reread, reception, redition, recitement, choose, readthrough, receipt, more...

Opposite:
non-reading, unreading, neglect

Adjectives:
ref, col, prophetic, torah, first, last, new, next, vertical, def, longitudinal



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