The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elocutionary \El`o*cu"tion*a*ry\, a. Pertaining to elocution.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical
WordNet
adj. of or relating to elocution; "elocutionary recitals"
(used of style of speaking) overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery"
Usage examples of "elocutionary".
Was the crush I had on the Object a result of her elocutionary talent?
A deep silence ensues, and the poor child, whose debut in the elocutionary art it is, suddenly loses countenance.
Her sister often read it aloud, standing behind her and rendering it with elocutionary effects.
Here is pictured a type of Greek work which survives in American vaudeville, where every line may be two-thirds spoken and one-third sung, the entire rendering, musical and elocutionary, depending upon the improvising power and sure instinct of the performer.
Such elements lay there behind a substantial barrier of conventional stage machinery and elocutionary scaffolding.
Any other conception of the passage, any conscious endeavour to win a round of applause by elocutionary display, would disable the actor from doing justice to the great and sadly stirring utterance.
He was not so much an impersonator as he was an interpreter of character, and the elocutionary part of acting was made more conspicuous and important by him than by any other tragedian since the days of Forrest and Brooke.