oratory : Idioms & Phrases

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epideictic oratory

  • noun a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people
    • Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory
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Fathers of the Oratory

  • (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living in community, and not bound by a special vow. The members are called also oratorians.
Webster 1913