Meaning of ORATORY
| Pronunciation: | | 'oru`towree
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| | Definition: | | [n] 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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| | See Also: | | address, declamation, keynote address, keynote speech, nominating address, nominating speech, nomination, oration, speech, stump speech, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
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} (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}.
\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.
When a world of men Could not prevail with all their
oratory. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Lady chapel, 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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