Crossword-Solution: ORATOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orator | n. | A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent. |
| Orator | n. | In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. |
| Orator | n. | A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. |
| Orator | n. | An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator. |
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Sentences with ORATOR (5)
Just about this time, I got hold of a book entitled “The Columbian Orator.” Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book.
Joyce recited a furious and fantastic and denunciatory speech on the scaffold which had imposing passages of school-boy eloquence in it, and gave him a reputation on the spot as an orator, and his name, later, in the society’s records, of the “Martyr Orator.” He went to his death breathing slaughter and charging his society to “avenge his murder.” If he knew anything of human nature he knew that to plenty of young fellows present in that great crowd he was a grand hero—and enviably situated.
Ben Jonson says of Bacon, as orator: His language, _where he could spare and pass by a jest_, was nobly censorious.
The distinguished Ted Hammacher was an accomplished orator, utilizing the best that Washington diplomatic-speak could muster.
Among the company are Lysias (the orator) and Euthydemus, the sons of Cephalus and brothers of Polemarchus, an unknown Charmantides--these are mute auditors; also there is Cleitophon, who once interrupts, where, as in the Dialogue which bears his name, he appears as the friend and ally of Thrasymachus.
Quotes with ORATOR (3)
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?
I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: "As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept in eloquence? answered, Delivery: What is the second? Delivery: What is the third? Delivery: so if you ask me concerning the precepts of the Christian religion, I will answer, first, second, and third, Humility.
The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 328 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).