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    [Noun]  | "or*a*to*ry" | \ ˈȯr-ə-ˌtȯr-ē \


    1: a place of prayer; especially : a private or institutional chapel

    2: an Oratorian congregation, house, or church


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English oratorie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin oratorium, from Latin orare;

    [Noun]  | "oratory" 


    1: the art of speaking in public eloquently or effectively

    2: public speaking that employs oratory

    3: public speaking that is characterized by the use of stock phrases and that appeals chiefly to the emotions


    Origin: circa 1522 ;

     Latin oratoria, from feminine of oratorius oratorical, from orare;

    [Noun]  | "oratory" 


    1: the art of speaking in public eloquently and effectively;


      * e.g., " ... a presidential hopeful with a gift for oratory and a highly charismatic personality "



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    2: language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere;


      * e.g., " ... the politician's oratory sounded good only to people who didn't bother to think "



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     [ "oratory" ]

    1: a small school in summit nj with very bad sports

      * e.g.,  ... oratory sucks at lacrosse. 

     [ "oratory" ]

    1: a small school in summit, all the teams suck, besides science league

      * e.g.,  ... oratory just won a lacrosse game, the world is coming to an end. 

     [ "oratory" ]

    1: 1) see Fagatory.

      * e.g.,  ... I called your boyfriend a girl, and he hit me with his purse 


     [ "oratory" ]

    2: 2) An all boys prep school in Summit,NJ. It is full of pussies, and they are always touching each other (especially in public). They ALWAYS start the drama. These tools will never be as great as Seton Hall Prep. Even the Villa Gorillas are more manly then they are! You thought that the Easies know how to please a guy...well not compared to these girls they dont.

     [ "Oratory" ]

    1: Where the school boys get head from random sluts in their bed rooms

      * e.g.,  ... He’s an oratory boy 

     [ "Oratory" ]

    1: verb: to get head in a bathroom stall from a slut

      * e.g.,  ... I got the original oratory at the dance in September 

     [ "The London Oratory" ]

    1: A place of Roman Catholic teaching where instead of a school prom, there is chapel every other week. On special occasions such as saint's feast days, jugs of very poorly rationed cordial is handed out to the pupils at lunch. Members of this place are referred to as Oratorians. An Oratorian can easily be summoned through loudly chanting "pater noster" in which the summoned Oratorian will reply "qui est in chelis". Pupils of the London Oratory will be told that they go to the "Eton of state schools" only for when they visit Eton in rugby matches the pupils are puzzled due to the lack of similarity in any shape or form. Each of the 7 years are divided into six houses, which very uncompetitively compete to win the annual house cup. This is due to the fact that not one individual is aware of how a house gets points only that when you come back after the summer another house's name is added onto the big wooden board.

      * e.g.,  ... I go to the London oratory it's kind of put me off the whole Catholicism idea. 

     [ "original oratory" ]

    1: A ten minute speech focused on moral values that is performed during speech and debate tournaments.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy: God my original oratory speech is so bad 

     [ "Oratory cliché" ]

    1: A word salad, as in when people are publicly speaking, they just repeat the same words, phrases or clichés repeatedly.

      * e.g.,  ... Kamala Harris has a tendency to get lost in her own oratory clichés. 

     [ "Oratory Youths" ]

    1: Biggest team in Gozo. Directed by bozza. Nursery coached by Pep Guardiola. Has the best players in the world, including; Dione Lautier (all time topscorer) , Rixu, Vincent Grech, George Farrugia, Rewrew and Paul Rapa.

      * e.g.,  ... 1) Int mal-hotspurs? 

     [ "Oratory Spackle" ]

    1: ME.

      * e.g.,  ... Oratory Spackle Sue: How are you, you don't look so good. How have you been feeling? Me: Well, actually I have kind of a bad headache this morning and I have been feeling kinda..... (someone more interesting walks in the room) Sue: HEY GIRL, GOOD MORNING!!! HOW YOU BEEN?! .. then i leave the room. Also, can be useful at parties. I arrive early and stand around talking about movies or reality tv, until more important guests arrive. 


     [ "Oratory Spackle" ]

    2: someone who fills conversation or quiet pauses until someone more interesting arrives.

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