Orator
['ɒrətə] or ['ɔrətɚ]
Definition
(n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
(n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
(n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
(n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Public speaker.
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Definition
n. a public speaker: a man of eloquence: a spokesman or advocate:—fem. Or′atress Or′atrix.—v.i. Or′āte to deliver an oration.—adjs. Oratō′rial; Orator′ical pertaining to oratory: becoming an orator.—adv. Orator′ically.—n. Or′atory the art of speaking well or so as to please and persuade esp. publicly: the exercise of eloquence: an apartment or building for private worship: one of various congregations in the R.C. Church esp. the Fathers of the Oratory established by St Philip Neri (1515-95): a religious house of theirs.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Being under the spell of an orator's eloquence, denotes that you will heed the voice of flattery to your own detriment, as you will be persuaded into offering aid to unworthy people. If a young woman falls in love with an orator, it is proof that in her loves she will be affected by outward show.
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Examples
- When he had finished, an Indian orator stood up to thank him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He valued the sciences, not on their own account, but as they might subserve the purposes of the orator. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Here, a brief press and confusion near the stage, ended in the man himself standing at the orator's side before the concourse. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Caleb paused here, and perhaps the greatest orator could not have chosen either his pause or his images better for the occasion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Roman citizen got his political facts from rumour and the occasional orator. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You're an orator. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Moses Barraclough; t' tub orator you call him sometimes, I think. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Why didn't you ever take to the stump;--you'd make a famous stump orator! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity, and kindness. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Yet when the famous orator made his speech the Grecian experiment was a toy of Kings, and the steam engine had just developed from this toy into a mighty engine in the hands of Watt. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The corner stones of the extension were laid by President Fillmore in 1851, Daniel Webster being the orator of the occasion, and the wings were finished in 1867. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I feel itI would express it if I couldbut, as you well know, I am no orator. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Thousands of people who hate the waste and futility of war as much as any of the orators of that evening were filled with an unholy glee. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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