Word Meanings - ORATORIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To play the orator. Dickens.

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• 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
• ORATORIO
  A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or
• ORATORIAL
  Oratorical. Swift. --Or`a*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
• 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. -- Or`a*tor"ic*al*ly, adv.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• ORATORIAN
  Oratorical. R. North.
• ORATORIZE
  To play the orator. Dickens.
• ORATORIOUS
  Oratorical. Jer. Taylor. -- Or`a*to"ri*ous*ly, adv.
• ORATOR
  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
• AMELIORATOR
  One who ameliorates.
• IMPLORATORY
  Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
• EDULCORATOR
  A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
• MORATORIUM
  A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
• MELIORATOR
  One who meliorates.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• 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
• ELABORATOR
  One who, or that which, elaborates.
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• CORROBORATORY
  Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
• ELABORATORY
  Tending to elaborate.
• ARBORATOR
  One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn.
• COLLABORATOR
  An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
• EXPLORATORY
  Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.
• COMMEMORATOR
  One who commemorates.
• DECORATOR
  One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.