oration
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oration englanniksi
A formal, often ceremonial speech.
''a funeral oration; an impassioned oration; to make / deliver / pronounce an oration''
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1) there is ſuch confuſion in my powers, / As after ſome Oration fairely ſpoke / By a beloued Prince, there doth appeare / Among the buzzing pleaſed multitude.
(RQ:King James Version)
1752, (w), ''(w)'', No. 207, 10(nbs)March, 1752, in Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p.(nbs)279,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004772607.0001.006
- The masters of rhetorick direct, that the most forcible arguments be produced in the latter part of an oration, lest they should be effaced or perplexed by supervenient images.
(RQ:Conrad Nostromo) when the provinces again displayed their old flags (proscribed in Guzman Bento’s time) there was another of those great orations, when Don José greeted these old emblems of the war of Independence, brought out again in the name of new Ideals.
A lengthy speech or argument in a private setting.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
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(RQ:Mitchell Gone with the Wind)
A specific form of short, solemn prayer said by the president of the liturgical celebration on behalf of the people.
To deliver an oration; to speak.
1633, (w) (attributed translator), ''The Auncient History of the (w). Written in Greeke, by (w) 1900. yeares since'', London, p.(nbs)80,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A73899.0001.001 cited in (w), ''A Dictionary of the English Language'', London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, Volume 3,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001193629
- They gave answers with great sufficiency touching all difficulties concerning their own law, and had marvellous promptitude both for orationing and giving judgement.
1764, (w), ''The Mayor of Garratt'', Act(nbs)II, in ''The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote'', Dublin: S. Price ''et al.'', 1778, Volume 1, p.(nbs)286,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008690779
- (..) Master Primmer is the man for my money; a man of learning; that can lay down the la why, adzooks, he is wise enough to puzzle the parson: and then, how you have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve of a Saturday night, about Russia and Prussia (..)
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an (l) (formal, often ceremonial speech)
(l) (lengthy (empty) talk or writing)