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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
oratory
n 1: addressing an audience formally (usually a long and
rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound
of his own oratory"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Oratory \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.
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An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian.
--Chaucer.
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Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or
place to pray in. --Jer. Taylor.
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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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Oratory \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.
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When a world of men
Could not prevail with all their oratory. --Shak.
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4. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the
understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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Thesaurus Results for oratory:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Lady chapel, 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, 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 |
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