Oration - Law Dictionary Search Results

Orator

Orator, a petitioner; a plaintiff in a bill, or information, in Chancery was formerly so called.

Panegyric

An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement a formal or elaborate encomium a laudatory discourse laudation

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bloviate

To orate pompously used especially of politicians and news commentators

Philippic

Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes the Grecian orator denouncing Philip king of Macedon

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

Containing or expressing salutations speaking a welcome greeting applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements or similar public exhibitions in American colleges

Declaim

To speak rhetorically to make a formal speech or oration to harangue specifically to recite a speech poem etc in public as a rhetorical exercise to practice public

Class day

by the members such as the reading of the class histories and poem the delivery of the class oration the planting of the class ivy etc

Salutatorian

The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college an honor commonly assigned to that member of

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