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oratory 音標拼音: ['ɔrət ,ɔri] n. 演說術;雄辯;修辭;禱告所 演說術;雄辯;修辭;禱告所 oratory n 1: addressing an audience formally ( usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); " he loved the sound of his own oratory" 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. [ 1913 Webster] An oratory [ temple] . . . in worship of Dian. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] { 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}. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " oratory": 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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