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orally, adv.|ˈɔərəlɪ|
[f. oral + -ly2.]
1. By, through, or with the mouth as the organ of eating and drinking.
1608Bp. Hall Epist. i. v. 30 The priest did sacrifice, and orally devour it whole. 1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit (1631) 48 That which is externally delivered in the Sacrament, and orally received by the Communicant. 1893Ch. Times 17 Feb. 164/4 It is the duty of every Catholic to be present every Lord's Day at the offering of the Eucharist, whether he communicates orally or in the prayers only.
2. By or with the mouth as the organ of speech; by word of mouth; verbally. Also in Comb.
1666Tillotson Rule of Faith iii. ix. §2 The faith of the Jews was not delivered to them orally, but by writing. 1786–1805H. Tooke Purley 32 Without..Language mankind would have nothing but Interjections with which to communicate, orally, any of their feelings. 1838Thirlwall Greece xix. III. 109 The votes, according to Spartan usage, were given orally. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 28 An Act..forbidding English subjects to hold any intercourse orally, or by writing, or by message, with the exiled family. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy iv. 86 These views usually prove to be a bundle of largely unexamined and orally-transmitted tags. 1966C. M. Simpson Brit. Broadside Ballad p. ix, The orally circulating ballad of tradition. 1967A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in England iii. 144 Orally-diffused amateur composition. Ibid. v. 368 There is the anonymous, orally-spread, firmly traditional kind of song. Ibid. v. 381 The text is from a broadside... The orally-transmitted versions are not so complete.
3. With the mouth, as a means of sexual stimulation. Cf. oral a. 3 b.
1951Ford & Beach Patterns Sexual Behaviour (1952) iii. 54 Alorese men occasionally stimulate the woman's genitals orally. 1953A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Female vii. 258, 16 per cent had stimulated the male genitalia orally. |