Word Meanings - ELOCUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Utterance by speech. whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton. 2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner

Additional info about word: ELOCUTION

1. Utterance by speech. whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton. 2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately 3. Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. To express these thoughts with elocution. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELOCUTION)

• Declamation
• Oratory
• elocution
• harangue
• effusion
• debate
• Eloquence
• rhetoric
• declamation

Related words: (words related to ELOCUTION)

• RHETORICIAN
  1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson. 2. A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• ELOCUTIONARY
  Pertaining to elocution.
• DEBATEMENT
  Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
• HARANGUE
  A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
• ORATORY
  A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the
• ELOQUENCE
  1. Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out
• RHETORICATION
  Rhetorical amplification. Waterland.
• DEBATER
  One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
• HARANGUEFUL
  Full of harangue.
• DECLAMATION
  1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with
• RHETORICAL
  Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies
• RHETORIC
  1. The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose. 2. Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. Locke. 3. Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
• ELOCUTIONIST
  One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
• ELOCUTION
  1. Utterance by speech. whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton. 2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner
• DEBATE
  1. A fight or fighting; contest; strife. On the day of the Trinity next ensuing was a great debate . . . and in that murder there were slain . . . fourscore. R. of Gloucester. But question fierce and proud reply Gave signal soon of dire debate.
• RHETORICATE
  To play the orator. South.
• DEBATEFULLY
  With contention.
• HARANGUER
  One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.
• DEBATEFUL
  Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. Spenser.
• IMPLORATORY
  Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
• MORATORY
  Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
• LABORATORY
  The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
• CORROBORATORY
  Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• ELABORATORY
  Tending to elaborate.
• EXPLORATORY
  Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.