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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as oratorical: as, “oratoric art,”

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Examples

  • That he can come nowhere near is painfully obvious and the warts and blemishes Blair masked with his oratoric fairy dust are now exposed.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Celtic; and the imagination of the Celt is oratoric.

    Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

  • Chamber music concerts, song recitals, and oratoric performances, -- all are of great advantage to the earnest student.

    The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern 1894

  • One of the greatest oratoric triumphs I ever witnessed was obtained by Garfield.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • Among the most successful examples of his oratoric power is his address at Bunker Hill at the Centennial in 1875, where the forming the procession and the other exercises occupied the day until nearly sundown, and General Devens, the orator of the day, laid aside his carefully prepared oration and addressed the audience in a brief speech, wholly unpremeditated, which was the delight of everybody who heard it.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • But still the great oratoric triumphs of literature and history stand the test of reading in the closet, as well as of hearing in the assembly.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • The heavy perfume that drenched his oratoric atmosphere would have intoxicated most men with self-adulation; but he offset every such allurement by constantly withdrawing from trifles, excitements, and seductions, and spending long hours in the unbroken solitude of thought and the awful neighborhood of God.

    The Friendships of Women William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • It is one of the highest triumphs of oratoric power, and may be employed honestly and fairly by any person who has the skill to do it honestly and fairly; but then, Why did he entitle his Sermon 'Wisdom and Innocence?'

    Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

  • And then he emptily talks of the "magnificent sweep of my eloquence," and my "oratoric power."

    Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

  • His 1910 speech, in Athens, was one of the greatest oratoric achievements of the

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

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