Eccl. [ad. eccl. L. lectōrātus, f. L. lector LECTOR.] The office of lector.
1876. T. A. Dixon, trans. Sighart’s Albert Gt., 51. The duties of his first lectorate.
1885. Catholic Dict. (ed. 3), 510/1. The Lectorate was the first order conferred on young clerics.
