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orate

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Competent in oracy; having good speaking skills. v 1 To speak formally; to give a speech. 2 To speak passionately; to preach for or against something.

Usage examples of orate.

The new technology of radio had forced briskness and brevity on professional speakers, such as politicians, who were accustomed to orating on the stump for three hours at a stretch, and preachers, sometimes drilling words into their listeners at speeds that reached two hundred words a minute.

Nunc audite omnes, ite, vobis fabula narratur Nunc orate et laudate, laudat etiam Alma Mater.

As the land returned, old bastions of the technophile culture were uncovered-generally hidden underground in elab orate military complexes.

He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror.

But then they gave me a plaque commem -- orating the Incarnations series.

Wearing only knee socks and Jockey shorts, Chris Rojo was orating the history of sugar cultivation and Congressman Dilbeck's role in it.

As soon as it did, he orated over its remains, "In his declining years, old Herod fell beneath her spell!

Barry orated, "and she demanded, 'I wish for the head of John the Baptist on a silver salver!

Barry orated, "with a wife and two children, a hovercar in the garage …"

An actor in this play strode to the edge of the stage and orated directly at me, none other.

The magistrate orated, "Salina, daughter of Pleinjeanne, and Miles, son of Lige, I have given you each five years and more to find mates, and you have found none.

Great rejoicing, in the midst of which Gennaro, who seldom converses, only orates, begs everybody remember that Niccol6 is still riding under the Thurn and Taxis colors.

For one, I don’t trust anyone who orates instead of talks, the way Shar-Lon does most of the time.

His mother (nee Miss Cora Bates) is one who frequently orates upon the proper kind of food which every menu should include.

If nothing else, I figured I could keep from orating at everybody in sight.