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orator 音標拼音: ['ɔrətɚ] n. 演說者,演講者,雄辯家,原告,請愿人 演說者,演講者,雄辯家,原告,請願人 orator n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [ synonym: { orator}, { speechmaker}, { rhetorician}, { public speaker}, { speechifier}] Orator \ Or" a* tor\, n. [ L., fr. orare to speak, utter. See { Oration}.] 1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent. [ 1913 Webster] I am no orator, as Brutus is. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Law) ( a) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. ( b) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. -- Burrill. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Eng. Universities) 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}. [ 1913 Webster] ORATOR, practice. A good man, skillful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private. Dupin, Profession d' Avocat, tom. 1, p. 19.. 2. In chancery, the party who files a bill calls himself in those pleadings your orator. Among the Romans, advocates were called orators. Code, 1, 8, 33, 1.
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