oratorical en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌɒɹəˈtɒɹɪkəl/
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Etymology
From orator or oratory + -ical, or else from Latin ōrātōrius.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) of, or relating to oratory or an orator.
I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance.
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 558:A to'oto'o is a Sāmoan oratorical staff.
The rest were looking at Coker curiously. It was the first time they had heard him in one of his oratorical moods.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 204: