Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō ("I read, I gather").

• IPA: /ˈlɛkʃən/

lection

1. (obsolete) The act of reading.
2. (ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
   • 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:

     This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.

• (a religious reading) lesson

• lectern
• lecture
• lector
• lesson