The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oratorian \Or`a*to"ri*an\, a.
Oratorical. [Obs.]
--R. North.
Oratorian \Or`a*to"ri*an\, n. [Cf. F. oratorien.] (R. C. Ch.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
Wiktionary
a. oratorical n. A member of a Roman Catholic oratory
Wikipedia
An Oratorian is a member of one of the following religious orders:
- Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (Roman Catholic)
- Oratory of Jesus (Roman Catholic)
- Oratory of the Good Shepherd (Anglican)
- Teologisk Oratorium (Lutheran)
Usage examples of "oratorian".
This Oratorian and his admirers have stated that I wore a hair shirt and shroud.
After remaining for about three years with his uncle, an old and not uncultured Oratorian, Louis left him early in 1811 to enter the college at Vendome, where he was maintained at the cost of Madame de Stael.
Contrary to the usual practice in educational institutions, we were allowed to talk at our meals, a tolerant Oratorian rule which enabled us to exchange plates according to our taste.
The eldest boy was, in spite of Rousseau, put out to nurse, and at seven years old was sent to the Oratorian grammar-school at Vendome, where he stayed another seven years, going through, according to his own account, the future experiences and performances of Louis Lambert, but making no reputation for himself in the ordinary school course.
Benedict of Spoleto, Carthusians and Camaldolesi, Cistercians and Olivetans, Oratorians and Vallombrosans, and the friars of Augustine, Brigittines, Premonstratensians, Servi, Trinitarians, and the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of Dominic, the friars preachers, and the sons of Vincent: and the monks of S.
Before the Revolution, the Oratorians, devoted, like the Society of Jesus, to the education of youth--succeeding the Jesuits, in fact, in certain of their establishments--the colleges of Vendome, of Tournon, of la Fleche, Pont-Levoy, Sorreze, and Juilly.
There were the Abbaye and the Luxembourg, the erstwhile convents of the Visitation and the Sacre-Coeur, the cloister of the Oratorians, the Salpetriere, and the St.
His knowledge of Greek is thought to prove it, but, though the Oratorians were admirable Hellenists, surely Greek could be learned elsewhere.
His generosity took a practical form, for he had a private income from his familys sherry business, and since as an Oratorian he was not obliged to surrender his property to the community he could use his money for his own purposes.
So I grew up in a two-front state, symbolizable by the Oratorian Italian pronunciation of Latin, and the strictly 'philological' pronunciation at that time introduced into our Cambridge dominated school.