1. oration - Noun
2. oration - Verb
An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.
To deliver an oration.
Source: Webster's dictionaryhe delivered an oration on the decline of family values Source: Internet
According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all. Source: Internet
According to Blake, Disraeli "in a brilliant oration of withering invective proceeded to destroy Lowe", who apologised and never held office again. Source: Internet
After Caesar's death, Brutus delivers an oration defending his actions, and for the moment, the crowd is on his side. Source: Internet
Fleming, pp. 405–407 Two years later Nansen broadcast a memorial oration to Amundsen, who had disappeared in the Arctic while organising a rescue party for Nobile whose airship had crashed during a second polar voyage. Source: Internet
An Epistle is an artistic literary form, just like the dialogue, the oration, or the drama. Source: Internet