What's the difference between oratorian and oratorical?
Oratorian
Definition:
(a.) Oratorical.
(n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
Example Sentences:
Oratorical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Egyptian viewers will long remember the episode in March when Youssef mocked Morsi's oratorical skills.
(2) Romney supporters talk up Obama's oratorical skills, while the president's campaign has been claiming that Romney has had a great deal of practice at debates during his nomination process.
(3) Tsipras's own oratorical flair and charisma have undoubtedly contributed to the ascent.
(4) Many had come for the first time to witness the much-vaunted oratorical skills of France’s youngest MP – and to see how she compared to her grandfather, the gruff former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972 and led it to become the most successful far-right party in western Europe.
(5) She delivers that last word with a kind of oratorical vibrato.
(6) Obama: Showed only occasional flashes of his legendary oratorical skills.
(7) How did Thoreau achieve his literary voice, which has worn better, to a modern ear, than Emerson's more fluent, worldly, and - to be expected from a former clergy-man - oratorical one?
(8) It's a sign of Soini's oratorical flair how easily he can turn all these peculiarities into assets.
(9) In 2008, his lauded rhetorical skills paled in comparison to the once-in-a-lifetime oratorical genius of Barack Obama.
(10) The man at the heart of this unusual situation is Altaf Hussain, a barrel-shaped man with a caterpillar moustache and a vigorous oratorical style who inspires both reverence and fear in the sprawling south Asian city he effectively runs by remote control.
(11) I admit I would find this astonishing: May has the necessary toughness , but I do not see that she has the oratorical gifts.
(12) Her famous oratorical style combined forceful rhetoric with folksy wit, and she continued as a popular public speaker long after leaving public office.
(13) Between then and now, I have watched him make mistakes, disappoint Pasok 's grassroots, lose electoral battles, be questioned, mocked for his lacklustre oratorical style, and be called "Giorgakis" (the diminutive of his first name) with more than a touch of sarcasm.
(14) In Belgravia, central London , Helene Oratore describes her family's life in their six-storey Regency house amid seemingly endless expansion work by neighbours seeking to eke out extra space now valued at £2,500 per sq ft. At one point last year, a third of the 23 homes in her street were covered in scaffolding and hoardings: "Next door is digging out a double basement and the noise is endless.
(15) Middle-class observers would pronounce him a saint, in the wake of another oratorical tour de force which invoked the Sermon on the Mount or invited them to ponder what it would profit a man that he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
(16) And what Sturgeon lacks in the oratorical furbelow and cosy wit that was Salmond’s stock in trade, she made up for in detail.
(17) With all three television networks offering live coverage of the march for jobs and freedom, this would be his oratorical introduction to the nation.
(18) The Labour leader insisted he is energised by campaigning – making speeches in market squares on a pallet, not he insists a soapbox, the oratorical weapon of John Major.