释义 |
oˈrationer rare. [f. oration v. + -er1.] One who makes an oration; an orator or speaker.
1765Foote Commissary ii. i, Why it is the famous orationer that has publish'd the book. 1881St. James's Gaz. 2 Mar. 3 The whole pack of Radical scribes and orationers. [The sense ‘Petitioner’ in Cent. Dict (and Funk), founded on a quot. from Dixon's Hist. Ch. Eng. I. 111 note, has no existence; the word in the original is oratours. See orator 2, quot. 1532.] |