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Definition of Oralists
1. oralist [n] - See also: oralist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oralists
Literary usage of Oralists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education of Deaf Children: Evidence of Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander by Edward Miner Gallaudet, Alexander Graham Bell (1892)
"Therefore, the pure oralists are not just, for they admit nothing as true or
useful in signs, the universal language of nature, particularly that of those ..."
2. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1905)
"It seems to us that the differences between the oralists and combined-system ...
A large percentage of oralists have come to look upon the Convention with ..."
3. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1915)
"... various methods that must be resorted to in order successfully to teach language
to the deaf, and the oralists present only one side of the question. ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings (1902)
"Let the causes (of this) assigned by oralists be noted. "One is, that the deaf are
... The second cause assigned by oralists is that the deaf are morbid. ..."
5. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1881)
"There were from America five members, while the city of Milan alone furnished
forty-six. The president and secretary, both oralists, were from Milan, ..."
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