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Definition of Oratories
1. oratory [n] - See also: oratory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oratories
Literary usage of Oratories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"oratories seem to have originated from the chapels erected over the tombs of ...
We also find early mention of private oratories for the celebration of Mass ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"oratories seem to have originated from the chapels erected over the tombs of ...
We also find early mention of private oratories for the celebration of Mass ..."
3. A History of Architecture in All Countries, from the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1893)
"oratories—Round Towers—Domical Dwellings—Domestic Architecture— Runic Cross ...
Yet during that period the Irish built round towers and oratories of a ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1846)
"I allude to the ancient oratories of Cornwall, formerly very numerous, ...
The oratories to which I have alluded, long neglected and desecrated, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
""made in the church of the blessed Peter, through the several oratories, ...
For small shrines or tabernacles within a church. also called oratories, ..."
6. A history of architecture in all countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1867)
"... oratories — Round Towers — Domical Dwellings — Domestic Architecture - Decorations.
THE history of architecture in Ireland forms as distinct a contrast ..."
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