2. Noun. A measure of this ability ¹
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Definition of Oracy
1. skill in oral communication [n ORACIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oracy
Literary usage of Oracy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Leominster (Mass.) (1911)
"Volney and oracy, May 24, 1838. Dennis, s. Smith and Betty, Feb. 14, 1796. ...
Volney and oracy, May 20, 1834. Hannah, d. Obadiah and Sarah, March 12, 1780. ..."
2. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"... is aristo- needed for its security as it is suggested by the consideration oracy.
that the subject masses are superior in number and physical force. ..."
3. The Past, the Present, and the Future by Henry Charles Carey (1872)
"oracy, eager to divide among themselves the plunder of subject cities. If we look
to Rome in the prosperous days when the fertile lands of Latium ..."
4. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"... and as of course at objects of the the formation of the League all the members
did not ou e oracy- possess a navy, we must suppose that, from the very ..."
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