(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.
(n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
(n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
(2) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
(3) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
(4) He may not be the greatest orator, sometimes stressing the wrong word in a sentence or stumbling over his Autocue, and he may not deliver media-managed soundbites with the ease that the PM does, but he is good with the public.
(5) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
(6) There is a kind of assassination, a funeral oration and someone with blood on his hands.
(7) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
(8) The 1976 Cushing orator takes a critical look at federal medical programs today, and at the health desires and needs of the public.
(9) The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands.
(10) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
(11) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
(12) Le Pen makes headlines and is a good orator – smooth and tough at the same time.
(13) The 1977 Cushing Orator looks at the question of neurosurgical manpower and its relation to national health policies, proposed or abandoned.
(14) These results suggest that by forming heterodimers, more elab-orate control of transcription can be achieved by creating receptor combinations with differing activities.
(15) Scholes, meanwhile, has spent most of the past two decades captivating football fans with incisive passing, but rarely with his public utterances, which have almost always seemed to bore the orator as much as his listeners.
(16) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
(17) When Rubio’s campaign launched last April, he drew immediate comparisons to another young orator: Barack Obama.
(18) Among them were her husband Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two of the most skilled orators American politics has ever known and, as the men Clinton seeks to succeed, predecessors with whom her own rhetorical gifts are often compared.
(19) A gifted orator, he uses hyperbole and alarmism to great effect, pandering to popular prejudices.
(20) King was winding up what would have been a well-received but, by his standards, fairly unremarkable oration.
Pulpit
Definition:
(n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
(n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
(n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
(2) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(3) So everything I do from the pulpit comes out of what I did as a librettist."
(4) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
(5) "We are disappointed that he hasn't talked or used his bully pulpit.
(6) This new pope seems to have genuine concern for the most challenged members of society and better still seems to be prepared to use his pulpit to help them.
(7) He used his presidential bully pulpit to help elevate gun control from a fringe issue to a central policy priority for the Democratic party.
(8) And at the Globe theatre in central London on Sunday – even as Catholics were being urged from thousands of pulpits across the country to oppose gay marriage – there was no shortage of same-sex couples ready to heed his encouragement.
(9) An encyclical raises the prospect of speeches on climate change from the pulpit of more than 17,000 Catholic parishes.
(10) It would be disingenuous to use its problems as a bully pulpit for basic income.” He has also highlighted the risk that removing the obligation for those on benefits to look for work might encourage some people to drift into long-term worklessness .
(11) From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit but no church, it was associated with dissenters — as Bunhill Fields later became.
(12) "If he can use his bully pulpit like this I think the American people are going to get it."
(13) The Roman Catholic church provides constancy and many analysts claim Law and Justice will win the election thanks to its support from rural pulpits.
(14) "Even in the church, the priest will announce from the pulpit not to shake hands or touch," he says.
(15) The packed pink-walled church was attentive and welcoming of his message about El Señor, delivered not in the pulpit, but standing just in front of the first pews.
(16) This article deals with a type of pulpit spectacles which have been specially developed for emmetropic presbyopes.
(17) A dedicated fanbase absorb the virtues of a movie from the pulpit – Mission Pictures have close ties with ministries worldwide and provide worship packs to accompany releases – and they won't be shy about spreading the word.
(18) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(19) "Back then, at a time when there was barbed wire outside and police were not at his side, he stood at this pulpit and dared speak truth to power, truth to evil.
(20) I was lucky that my family, although poor, was enlightened enough to know that the hatred preached from the pulpits or espoused in the tabloids, was utter rubbish.