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Definition of Oratory
1. Noun. Addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous). "He loved the sound of his own oratory"
Specialized synonyms: Keynote Address, Keynote Speech, Nominating Address, Nominating Speech, Nomination, Oration, Declamation, Epideictic Oratory, Stump Speech, Salutatory, Salutatory Address, Salutatory Oration, Valediction, Valedictory, Valedictory Address, Valedictory Oration
Derivative terms: Oratorical
Definition of Oratory
1. n. A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Oratory
1. Noun. The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner. ¹
2. Noun. Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing. ¹
3. Noun. (context: countable) A private chapel. ¹
4. Noun. (context: countable) A large Roman Catholic church. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oratory
1. the art of public speaking [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Oratory
1. Origin: 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, 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oratory
Literary usage of Oratory
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)
"The sermons at the oratory were free from these defects. They were simple and
familiar discourses; the first an exposition on some point of the spiritual ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The sermons at the oratory were free from these defects. They were simple and
familiar discourses; the first an exposition on some point of the spiritual ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"For Phillips—and the fact is vital to all criticism of his oratory—spoke ...
You cannot compare oratory in those circumstances with oratory in a dress ..."
4. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"The relation between ancient oratory and ancient Relation between prose, ...
Hence the historical study of ancient oratory has an interest wider and deeper ..."
5. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1916)
"The "What" of oratory is largely determined outside its own realm — it is the
... The "How" is the great task of oratory. How shall the truth be made to set ..."
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