Crossword clues for elocution
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elocution \El`o*cu"tion\, n. [L. elocutio, fr. eloqui, elocutus, to speak out: cf. F. ['e]locution. See Eloquent.]
-
Utterance by speech. [R.]
[Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise.
--Milton. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. ``The elocution of a reader.''
--Whately-
Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. [Obs.]
To express these thoughts with elocution.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Late Latin elocutionem (nominative elocutio) "voice production, a speaking out, utterance, manner of expression," in classical Latin especially "rhetorical utterance, oratorical expression," noun of action from past participle stem of eloqui "speak out" (see eloquence). Related: Elocutionary; elocutionist.
Wiktionary
n. The art of public speaking with expert control of gesture and voice, etc.
WordNet
n. an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
Wikipedia
Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone.
Usage examples of "elocution".
No need to imitate the gestures of elocution, it is nature, not art, that makes the elocutionist and the orator.
Venus de Milo with the colouring of a Titian, the grace of a Nautch girl, the miracle-working powers of a Hindu fakir, the elocution of a Demosthenes, and the voice of a Malibran.
In the conduct of affairs he may perhaps be able to take so comprehensive a view as to render invention and expedient unnecessary, but were they to become necessary, I think he would fail in these--and I am not clear as to the first, or whether much of his reputation may not arise from a very firm and decisive tone suited to the times, with a clear and perspicuous elocution.
I am not clear as to the first, or whether much of his reputation may not arise from a very firm and decisive tone suited to the times, with a clear and perspicuous elocution.
Marie Perrault, daughter of a one-time actor of no mean repute, who had taught elocution at the Seminaire where Miss Vernon had finished her education.
Caligula took private lessons in elocution and dancing from Apelles and Mnester and after a time frequently appeared on the stage in their parts.
She repeated this with slow elocution, as though her callers were children or simpletons.
I had not the shadow of a fear as to my voice or to my elocution, and for the matter of composing my sermon I felt myself equal to the production of a masterpiece.
I was enchanted, not so much with her grace and beauty, as by her wit and perfect elocution.
Of course there was an enthusiastic clapping when Miss Celia sat down, but even while hands applauded, consciences pricked, and undone tasks, complaining words and sour faces seemed to rise up reproachfully before many of the children, as well as their own faults of elocution.
That she was a flaming nuisance -- with the "g" carefully sounded - and not a bleedin' pain in the arse, was due to Sister Philomena's elocution lessons.
Rebuzzed, replacing a bolt on her thigh, she whistles in a high, shrill gulp of air, smiles wanly, then bursts into a high-frequency palaver, computerese elocution eventually hitting the cue of my own dialect.
There were few boats out but those he saw inspired him to crisp elocutions of category and trait.
Mimicry had always been a gift of hers, helping her to absorb the same lessons in elocution, dancing, French and flower arranging her mistress had suffered through.
Whatever the reason, Joseph and Maude moved without servants to a dairy ranch, where the winner of the trigonometry and elocution prizes scrubbed laundry on a washboard, killed mice by smashing them with a coal shovel, and rose before dawn to bake bread for a kitchenful of ranch hands wearing unwashed longjohns.