Vocabulary : Orarian to Oratorize

Orarian : Of or pertaining to a coast.
Oration : An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. ;; To deliver an oration.
Orator : A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent. ;; In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. ;; A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. ;; An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
Oratorial : Oratorical.
Oratorian : Oratorical. ;; See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
Oratorical : Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
Oratories : of Oratory
Oratorio : A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted. ;; Performance or rendering of such a composition.
Oratorious : Oratorical.
Oratorize : To play the orator.
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