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oratorical

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1. oratorical - Adjective

2. oratorical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.

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Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill. Richard Whately

An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts. Joseph Joubert

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it. Ambrose Bierce

oratorical prose Source: Internet

harangued his men in an oratorical way Source: Internet

Cicero's oratorical skill is shown in his character assassination of Verres and various other techniques of persuasion used on the jury. Source: Internet

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