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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 Websters oration at Bunker Hill...
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...
Orator
Orator, a petitioner; a plaintiff in a bill, or information, in Chancery was formerly so called....
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...
Philippic
Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes the Grecian orator denouncing Philip king of Macedon...
bloviate
To orate pompously used especially of politicians and news commentators...
Boanerges
Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator...
Catastasis
That part of a speech usually the exordium in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed...
Class day
In American colleges and universities a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted 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...
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 speaking as the students declaim twice a week...
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