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▪ I. oration, n.|ɒˈreɪʃən|
Also 4–5 oracion(e.
[ad. L. ōrātiōn-em, n. of action f. orāre: see orate v. Cf. rare F. oration in Godefroy and Cotgr.; the ordinary Fr. is oraison orison.]
1. A prayer, petition, or supplication to God; orison. Now only Hist.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (Baptista) 840 He mekly knelit done, makand to god his oracione. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 72 b/2, I haue herde thy prayer and thyn oracion that thou hast prayed tofore me. 1593B. Barnes Sonn. lii, O let us use and have in readinesse Those sweet orations, prostrate at his feete. 1894R. C. Hope Mediæval Music vi. 58 The Collectarium, the collects, orations, capitula or short lessons used at all the Hour Services.
2. A formal speech or discourse delivered in elevated and dignified language; esp. one delivered in connexion with some particular occasion, as an anniversary celebration, a funeral, etc.
1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. iii. 156 Elegant oratours with theyr oracions garnisshed with eligancy. 1526Tindale Acts xii. 21 Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge..set hym in his seate and made an oracion vnto them. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xiii. §7 Demosthenes..had ready framed a number of prefaces for orations and speeches. 1796–7Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 379 What a funeral oration for a wife and a mother! 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. App. iii. (1862) 450 The greatest orations of the two first orators of any age, Demosthenes and æschines.
3. Speech, language; now only in Gram. as rendering L. oratio recta and obliqua, ‘direct’ and ‘oblique oration’, or use of language (see oratio).
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. x. 52 Oration was given to man, as a companion, or organ of Reason. 1876B. H. Kennedy Pub. Sch. Lat. Gram. §190 Oratio Obliqua (in distinction from Oratio Recta, direct oration) is a term especially applied to Substantival Clauses, and, above all, to the Infinitive Clause and its substitutes.
4. dial. A noise or hubbub; a fuss.
1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v., ‘For seur, barns, what an oration ye mak’. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Oration, noise, uproar. 1875Sussex Gloss., ‘He makes such an oration about anything’.
5. attrib., as oration-hall.
1855Thackeray Newcomes II. 332 Before marching from the oration-hall.
▪ II. oˈration, v. colloq.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. To make a speech or oration; to ‘speechify’. (In quot. 1802 trans. To get (into) by ‘speechifying’.) Hence oˈrationing vbl. n.
1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 79–80 They..had marvailous promptitude both for orationing and giving Judgment. 1764Foote Mayor of G. ii. i, You have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve..about Russia and Prussia. 1802H. Martin Helen of Glenross I. 233 A symptom..much more unequivocal, than those my uncle orations himself into a fever about. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career I. iii. 45 Now you get out of that trick of prize-orationing. I call it snuffery, sir! |