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orator

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A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.

In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.

A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.

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 other like duties; -- called also public orator.

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22 January 1561 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. Source: Internet

A good orator needed also to be a good man, a person enlightened on a variety of civic topics. Source: Internet

A common criticism is that Pericles was always a better politician and orator than strategist. Source: Internet

Around 338 BC the orator Hyperides (fragment 13) claimed that there were 150,000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably no more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them. Source: Internet

At Freiburg in 1506 he published his first work, Ludicra logices exercitamenta and also proved himself a brilliant and subtle orator, although obsessed by an untamable controversial spirit and unrestrained powers of invective. Source: Internet

As one friend described it: "Just to think that here was Emma, the greatest orator in America, unable to utter one word." Source: Internet

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