About The Word Oratory
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Oratory
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What's The Definition Of Oratory?
[n] addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Oratory: Related Terms | Find terms related to Oratory: address | articulateness | articulation | chantry | chapel | chapel of ease | chapel royal | command of language | command of words | debating | declamation | demagogism | diction | effective style | elocution | eloquence | eloquent tongue | enunciation | expression | expressiveness | facundity | felicitousness | felicity | fluency | forensics | gift of expression | gift of gab | glibness | grandiloquence | graphicness | homiletics | Lady chapel | lecturing | magniloquence | meaningfulness | oratorium | platform oratory | public speaking | pyrotechnics | rabble-rousing | rhetoric | sacellum | sacrament chapel | sacrarium | school chapel | side chapel | silver tongue | slickness | smoothness | speaking | speechcraft | speechification | speeching | speechmaking | stump speaking | vividness | wordcraft See Also | address | declamation | keynote address | keynote speech | nominating address | nominating speech | nomination | oration | speech | stump speech | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address Oratory In Webster's Dictionary \Or"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Oratories}. [OE. oratorie, fr. L.
oratorium, fr. oratorius of praying, of an orator: cf. F.
oratoire. See {Orator}, {Oral}, and cf. {Oratorio}.]
A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small
room set apart for private devotions.
An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian.
--Chaucer.
Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or
place to pray in. --Jer. Taylor.
{Fathers of the Oratory} (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests
founded by St. Philip Neri, living in community, and not
bound by a special vow. The members are called also
{oratorians}.
\Or"a*to*ry\, n. [L. oratoria (sc. ars) the oratorical art.] The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence. ``The oratory of Greece and Rome.'' --Milton. When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory. --Shak. |
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