Word Meanings - ORATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 Oratory , 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. (more info) fr. oratorius of praying, of an orator: cf. F. oratoire. See Orator,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ORATORY)

• Declamation
• Oratory
• elocution
• harangue
• effusion
• debate
• Elocution
• declamation
• eloquence

Related words: (words related to ORATORY)

• 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
• 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
• 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. To engage in combat for; to strive for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott. 2. To contend for in words or arguments;
• 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.
• COMMEMORATORY
  Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.