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Public declamation; oratory.

formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. Swift.

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.

To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory. [Slang, U.S.] splurge on a new hi-fi system.

To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. & Fl.

us, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]

An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.

of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.

A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. [R.] Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

stump for a speaker's platform in newly- settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]

iles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. Hooker.

tate of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman. Ayliffe. He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his own supereminence. Prof. Wilson.

A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

a brilliant light. (f) To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator. -- To throw over, to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties. -- To throw up. (a) To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission. "Experienced gamesters thro…

plicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.

circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.

e assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

y and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.

Scoffing; scurrilous. [A Latinism. Obs.] "Subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator." B. Jonson.