oratorn.

Brit.

/ˈɒrətə/, U.S.

/ˈɔrədər/

Forms: Middle English aratour, Middle English oratur, Middle English orature, Middle English–1600s oratoure, Middle English–1700s oratour, 1500s oratore, 1500s–1600s orrator, 1500s– orator; Scottish pre-1700 horitour, pre-1700 oratore, pre-1700 oratour, pre-1700 oratoure, pre-1700 oratowr, pre-1700 orature, pre-1700 oratwour, pre-1700 oritour, pre-1700 orratour, pre-1700 ortour, pre-1700 1700s– orator.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French oratour, orateur; Latin ōrātōr-, ōrātor.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman oratour petitioner, suppliant, and Middle French orateur, oratour petitioner, suppliant (c1355), eloquent person (14th cent.; French orateur ), and their etymon classical Latin ōrātōr-, ōrātor public speaker, orator, advocate, ambassador, envoy, petitioner < ōrāt- , past participial stem of ōrāre orate v. + -or -or suffix. Compare Italian oratore (a1294), Spanish orador (1220–50), Portuguese orador (13th cent.).With Public Orator (see sense 5) compare post-classical Latin orator publicus (1522, 1636 in British sources).

1. A person who pleads or argues on behalf of a person or cause; an advocate, a spokesperson; spec. a professional advocate. Now rare (historical in later use).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate

advocatec1384

oratorc1384

prolocutor1493

counsellor1530

barristerc1545

barman1657

bar-gown1664

counsel1709

limb of the bar1815

blue bag1817

actor1875

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxiv. 1 Terculle, sum oratour [L. oratore], or fair speker, or avocat..wenten to the presedent aȝeyns Poul.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iv. 280 Thise oratours [L. oratores] or advocattes..enforcen hem to commoeve the juges to han pite of hem that han suffrid.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 130 (MED) Þus..will Philipp..take away our wise men & owr oraturs.

1531 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 33 Your seid Orator hath noo especyaltie ne wrytyng prouyng the seid contracte.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B1^v Beautie it selfe doth of it selfe perswade, The eies of men without an Orator.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine App. 202 But oh! remember the Oratour on thy right hand, Christ Jesus our Lord.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 670 As when of old som Orator renound In Athens or free Rome,..to some great cause addrest, Stood in himself collected.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. iii. 82 Whosoever strives to beget or foment in his heart, such [malignant] persuasions concerning God, makes himself the devil's orator, and declaims his cause.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lix. 388 The criminative orators were omnipotent.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 901/2 He [sc. Moses Amyraut] was appointed orator to present to the King ‘The Copy of their Complaints and Grievances for the Infractions and Violations of the Edict of Nantes’.

†2.

a. A person who offers a prayer or petition; a petitioner or suppliant. (Formerly commonly used in closing a letter or petition to a superior.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals

beseecher1382

petitioner1414

suitor1414

orator1417

suppliantc1422

supplicant1475

soliciter1536

solicitor1551

oratricle1574

pleader1584

supplicationer1585

beggar1589

incaller?1591

supplicator1593

petitor1596

beadsman1600

impetrator1605

implorer1611

imploratora1616

replicant1622

invokera1649

prostrate1648

deprecator1656

appellant1704

memorialist1706

applicationer1710

postulant1733

invocant1751

solicitant1821

petitionist1822

memorializer1859

1417 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 436 I-writen ad Constance the secunde Day of Februarie. By ȝowr Pouere, Trewe, and continual Oratour Joh. Forsster.

1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 10/2 To the Kyng..shewed your contenuell Oratours.

1497 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 87 Schawin to us be our devot oratour, Dene Alexander Mentieth.

1532 Submiss. of Clergy to Henry VIII (MS, Public Records Office) We your most humble subjectis dayly oratours and beadismen of your clergye of England [etc.].

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ded. Youre graces humble subiecte and daylye oratour, Myles Couerdale.

1618 W. Lithgow Pilgrimes Farewell sig. B2^v Your Lo. most Afold and quotidian Oratour.

a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 391 Devout Oratours and humble Solicitours at the Throne of grace.

1700 P. Lorrain Let. 12 Oct. in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) V. 395 Who with profound respect beg leave to subscribe myself..your Honour's most humble and most obed^t Serv^t and daily Orator, Paul Lorrain.

1727 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 565 Your Honors' most humble orators shall ever pray for the prosperity and happiness of this government.

b. Law. The plaintiff or petitioner in a case in a court of chancery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff > petitioner

beseecherc1400

petitioner1503

orator1547

1547 W. Hall Suit. aginst H. Owen in Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. (1933) 11 32 The chest of Iron and the money therin conteyned hath ben by your said Oratour sithens the death of the said Testatour dyuerse and many tymes requyred of the said Henry.

1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §77 But of his further malyce agaynst your said Orator, he doth threaten your Orator in such sort, that your Orator for want of the said Evidences,..dareth not make his just and lawfull entrie.

1623 Bill of Complaint in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. (1885) 495 Humbly complayning, Sheweth vnto your good Lordshipp, your dayly oratours Ellis Worth, of London, gentleman, John Cumber, of the same, gentleman, and John Blany, of London aforesaid.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxvii. 442 The first commencement of a suit in chancery is by preferring a bill to the lord chancellor, in the stile of a petition; ‘humbly complaining sheweth to your lordship your orator A. B. that, &c.’

a. A person who delivers a speech or oration; a public speaker, esp. one distinguished for eloquence and rhetorical skill; a person proficient in public speaking.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches

ditera1387

fair speakera1398

speakerc1400

pronouncer?a1425

orator?a1439

oratrice1565

oratress1587

rhetor1588

oratrix?1592

tongue-man1594

tonguesman1596

public speaker1646

holder-forth1661

tub-minister1662

spokesman1663

addresser1665

tub-drubbera1704

speech-maker1710

speecher1762

orationer1765

speechifiera1777

mob-orator1814

perorator1827

elocutionist1847

tub-orator1849

spokester1850

patterer1851

platformer1851

oratist1860

stem-winder1875

addressor1897

pep talker1925

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. 3307 (MED) To an oratour longeth..naturel wit, practik with science, Vertuous lyff, [etc.].

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 31 Cecero the gret orature of Rome.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. i. f. 92 Vsinge also thoffice both of an oratoure and preacher.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 212 I come not (Friends) to steale away your hearts, I am no Orator, as Brutus is.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 1 He..was none of the gracefullest of Orators, for his words came difficultly from him.

1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 105 The vehemence of action, observed in the ancient orators.

1794 C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 82 As an orator his parliamentary speeches prove him an inimitable, practical speechifier.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 254 The vulgar are always unwilling to believe that a great orator can be a profound thinker.

1885 Manch. Weekly Times 6 June 5/5 As soon as a long-winded orator gets up the members wisely retire.

1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. iv. 129 An able speaker, without being a great orator.

1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 21 Dec. 28/2 Lee reverently follows X..showing how education and experience turned him from a criminal and white hater into a powerful orator and black role model.

†b. An eloquent writer. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > eloquent writer

orator1587

expresser?1611

bee1753

1587 MS Robert Leng (Brit. Mus.) Whereas yt hath bene th'order of all antiant orators..to regester..in cronicle all such worthye persons..as..have deserved perpetuall remembraunce.

4. A person sent to plead or speak for another; an ambassador, envoy, or messenger. Also figurative. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who speaks for or on behalf of another

whistlec1380

dictourc1440

orator1474

prolocutor?a1475

prelocutor1500

vauntparler1534

paranympha1538

mouth1563

speech1578

speaker1583

promotor1603

ambassador1611

suffragant1613

suffragator1618

mouthpiece1776

linguist1819

megaphone1909

porte-parole1911

spokesperson1972

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy

sand1038

sandesman1123

sanderbodec1200

erendes-manc1275

sand-manc1275

legatec1350

embassadora1398

ambassador1417

bassatourc1450

orator1474

messenger1535

vakeel1622

public minister1624

minister1647

envoy1666

wakeel1803

missionary1821

elchee1824

ambassador-at-large1868

1474 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 829 (MED) We, the fornemmit Oratouris and Ambassiatouris of the King of Scotland..Promittis, in good Feith, in the Name of our said Soveraine Lord..that our said Soveraine Lord sauld Kepe and Observe..all the Premissis Wourde for Wourde.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxi^v/1 Whan my noble prince the Soudan of babilone had decerned to sende me his oratour to fraunce.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 37/22 Quhen the Laurentinis complenit..of thir iniuris done to thir oratouris & legatis.

1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. K.^v He daily messages doth send, With costly iewels orators of loue.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. xvii. 680 Scipio..sent C. Lælius with rich gifts and presents, as an Orator to treat with him.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 174 Audience is given to publick Oratours and Embassadours.

1929 J. L. La Monte & C. H. Taylor Anniv. Ess. Mediaeval Hist. 102 He was chosen to be head of his monastery. Later, Henry VII sent him to Rome as his orator.

1988 Renaissance Stud. 2 222 Two..visitors..to the Curia..were William Scheves, archbishop of St Andrews, and Robert Blacader, bishop of Glasgow. They came..as orators of James III and James IV.

5. More fully Public Orator. An official at a university, esp. Oxford and Cambridge, who speaks for the university on ceremonial occasions, introduces candidates for certain honorary degrees, and performs other written and spoken duties as a formal representative of the university.‘Orators’ were in early times sent by the universities as special envoys, e.g. to Councils of the Church, as that of Basel in 1430. A permanent Public Orator was appointed at Cambridge in 1522, and at Oxford in 1564.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > other officials

non-regentc1447

taxer1532

subprincipal1562

scrutator1580

Master of Glomerya1591

orator1592

schoolkeeper?c1601

curator1612

subwarden1622

outrider1664

curator1669

domus1759

taxator1831

fetcher1890

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > in universities

orator1592

prevaricator1615

varier1615

terrae filius1651

variator1749

1592 Let. 18 Sept. in Coll. Malone Soc. (1911) I. ii. 192 Your daylie Oratores the Vicechauncellor of the Vniu'sitie of Cambridge, and the rest of the Headdes of Colleges theare.

1614 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 305 The University Orator, Nethersole..is taxed for calling the prince Jacobissime Carole.

1645 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 116 William Strode..public orator of the University, died, M., 10 Mar. anno 1644/5.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 84 Dr. Henry Paman sometime Orator of the University of Cambridge.

1899 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 1 Public Orator. 1880 William Walter Merry, D.D. Rector of Lincoln.

1900 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 683 Unless the Fellow hold the office of Professor, Public Orator, Registrary, or Librarian in the University.

1992 Nottingham Graduate (BNC) Before each honorary degree is awarded by the Chancellor, the candidate is presented by a senior member of the academic staff known as the Public Orator.

Compounds

orator Mum n. [apparently originally a nickname given to John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish lawyer, politician, and judge, with reference to his first appearance in court, when his nervousness apparently rendered him initially unable to speak; a character of this name appears in J. O'Keeffe's opera The Son-in-Law (1783: see quot. 1783), but it is unclear whether Curran was so-called after the character, or vice versa] now rare (a name given to) a person who cannot or will not speak.

ΚΠ

1783 J. O'Keeffe Son-in-Law i. iv. 25 My dear it proceeds from a confounded blunder of orator Mum's.]

1785 J. Cobb Hurly-Burly 10 The Magician Nordin has..presented it to his son, your rival, Mr. Orator Mum... The tongue of this his fav'rite offspring is spell bound.—No one can free it but Hymen.

1807 Salmagundi 25 Apr. 177 These silent members are..denominated orator mums.

1894 T. D. English Select Poems 446 He twiddled his thumbs, With an eloquence silent as Orator Mum's.

1997 Canad. Business (Nexis) Nov. (Canad. Speeches) v. His [sc. J. P. Curran's] repeated failures at the London debating society procured for him the title of Orator Mum.

Derivatives

† orator-like adj. and adv. Obsolete like or in the manner of an orator.

ΚΠ

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 13 It were wel done & Oratourlike.

1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 63 The Commendation of an eloquente and oratorlike stile.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Thess. iii. 4) Here the Apostle, Oratour-like, entereth their bosoms.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xii. 161 What is well, and Orator-like written or spoken.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	orator
释义	oratorn. Brit. /ˈɒrətə/, U.S. /ˈɔrədər/ Forms: Middle English aratour, Middle English oratur, Middle English orature, Middle English–1600s oratoure, Middle English–1700s oratour, 1500s oratore, 1500s–1600s orrator, 1500s– orator; Scottish pre-1700 horitour, pre-1700 oratore, pre-1700 oratour, pre-1700 oratoure, pre-1700 oratowr, pre-1700 orature, pre-1700 oratwour, pre-1700 oritour, pre-1700 orratour, pre-1700 ortour, pre-1700 1700s– orator. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French oratour, orateur; Latin ōrātōr-, ōrātor. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman oratour petitioner, suppliant, and Middle French orateur, oratour petitioner, suppliant (c1355), eloquent person (14th cent.; French orateur ), and their etymon classical Latin ōrātōr-, ōrātor public speaker, orator, advocate, ambassador, envoy, petitioner < ōrāt- , past participial stem of ōrāre orate v. + -or -or suffix. Compare Italian oratore (a1294), Spanish orador (1220–50), Portuguese orador (13th cent.).With Public Orator (see sense 5) compare post-classical Latin orator publicus (1522, 1636 in British sources). 1. A person who pleads or argues on behalf of a person or cause; an advocate, a spokesperson; spec. a professional advocate. Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate advocatec1384 oratorc1384 prolocutor1493 counsellor1530 barristerc1545 barman1657 bar-gown1664 counsel1709 limb of the bar1815 blue bag1817 actor1875 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxiv. 1 Terculle, sum oratour [L. oratore], or fair speker, or avocat..wenten to the presedent aȝeyns Poul. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iv. 280 Thise oratours [L. oratores] or advocattes..enforcen hem to commoeve the juges to han pite of hem that han suffrid. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 130 (MED) Þus..will Philipp..take away our wise men & owr oraturs. 1531 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 33 Your seid Orator hath noo especyaltie ne wrytyng prouyng the seid contracte. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B1^v Beautie it selfe doth of it selfe perswade, The eies of men without an Orator. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine App. 202 But oh! remember the Oratour on thy right hand, Christ Jesus our Lord. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 670 As when of old som Orator renound In Athens or free Rome,..to some great cause addrest, Stood in himself collected. View more context for this quotation a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. iii. 82 Whosoever strives to beget or foment in his heart, such [malignant] persuasions concerning God, makes himself the devil's orator, and declaims his cause. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lix. 388 The criminative orators were omnipotent. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 901/2 He [sc. Moses Amyraut] was appointed orator to present to the King ‘The Copy of their Complaints and Grievances for the Infractions and Violations of the Edict of Nantes’. †2. a. A person who offers a prayer or petition; a petitioner or suppliant. (Formerly commonly used in closing a letter or petition to a superior.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals beseecher1382 petitioner1414 suitor1414 orator1417 suppliantc1422 supplicant1475 soliciter1536 solicitor1551 oratricle1574 pleader1584 supplicationer1585 beggar1589 incaller?1591 supplicator1593 petitor1596 beadsman1600 impetrator1605 implorer1611 imploratora1616 replicant1622 invokera1649 prostrate1648 deprecator1656 appellant1704 memorialist1706 applicationer1710 postulant1733 invocant1751 solicitant1821 petitionist1822 memorializer1859 1417 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 436 I-writen ad Constance the secunde Day of Februarie. By ȝowr Pouere, Trewe, and continual Oratour Joh. Forsster. 1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 10/2 To the Kyng..shewed your contenuell Oratours. 1497 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 87 Schawin to us be our devot oratour, Dene Alexander Mentieth. 1532 Submiss. of Clergy to Henry VIII (MS, Public Records Office) We your most humble subjectis dayly oratours and beadismen of your clergye of England [etc.]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ded. Youre graces humble subiecte and daylye oratour, Myles Couerdale. 1618 W. Lithgow Pilgrimes Farewell sig. B2^v Your Lo. most Afold and quotidian Oratour. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 391 Devout Oratours and humble Solicitours at the Throne of grace. 1700 P. Lorrain Let. 12 Oct. in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) V. 395 Who with profound respect beg leave to subscribe myself..your Honour's most humble and most obed^t Serv^t and daily Orator, Paul Lorrain. 1727 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 565 Your Honors' most humble orators shall ever pray for the prosperity and happiness of this government. b. Law. The plaintiff or petitioner in a case in a court of chancery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff > petitioner beseecherc1400 petitioner1503 orator1547 1547 W. Hall Suit. aginst H. Owen in Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. (1933) 11 32 The chest of Iron and the money therin conteyned hath ben by your said Oratour sithens the death of the said Testatour dyuerse and many tymes requyred of the said Henry. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §77 But of his further malyce agaynst your said Orator, he doth threaten your Orator in such sort, that your Orator for want of the said Evidences,..dareth not make his just and lawfull entrie. 1623 Bill of Complaint in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. (1885) 495 Humbly complayning, Sheweth vnto your good Lordshipp, your dayly oratours Ellis Worth, of London, gentleman, John Cumber, of the same, gentleman, and John Blany, of London aforesaid. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxvii. 442 The first commencement of a suit in chancery is by preferring a bill to the lord chancellor, in the stile of a petition; ‘humbly complaining sheweth to your lordship your orator A. B. that, &c.’ 3. a. A person who delivers a speech or oration; a public speaker, esp. one distinguished for eloquence and rhetorical skill; a person proficient in public speaking. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. 3307 (MED) To an oratour longeth..naturel wit, practik with science, Vertuous lyff, [etc.]. a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 31 Cecero the gret orature of Rome. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. i. f. 92 Vsinge also thoffice both of an oratoure and preacher. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 212 I come not (Friends) to steale away your hearts, I am no Orator, as Brutus is. View more context for this quotation 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 1 He..was none of the gracefullest of Orators, for his words came difficultly from him. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 105 The vehemence of action, observed in the ancient orators. 1794 C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 82 As an orator his parliamentary speeches prove him an inimitable, practical speechifier. a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 254 The vulgar are always unwilling to believe that a great orator can be a profound thinker. 1885 Manch. Weekly Times 6 June 5/5 As soon as a long-winded orator gets up the members wisely retire. 1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. iv. 129 An able speaker, without being a great orator. 1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 21 Dec. 28/2 Lee reverently follows X..showing how education and experience turned him from a criminal and white hater into a powerful orator and black role model. †b. An eloquent writer. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > eloquent writer orator1587 expresser?1611 bee1753 1587 MS Robert Leng (Brit. Mus.) Whereas yt hath bene th'order of all antiant orators..to regester..in cronicle all such worthye persons..as..have deserved perpetuall remembraunce. 4. A person sent to plead or speak for another; an ambassador, envoy, or messenger. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who speaks for or on behalf of another whistlec1380 dictourc1440 orator1474 prolocutor?a1475 prelocutor1500 vauntparler1534 paranympha1538 mouth1563 speech1578 speaker1583 promotor1603 ambassador1611 suffragant1613 suffragator1618 mouthpiece1776 linguist1819 megaphone1909 porte-parole1911 spokesperson1972 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 erendes-manc1275 sand-manc1275 legatec1350 embassadora1398 ambassador1417 bassatourc1450 orator1474 messenger1535 vakeel1622 public minister1624 minister1647 envoy1666 wakeel1803 missionary1821 elchee1824 ambassador-at-large1868 1474 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 829 (MED) We, the fornemmit Oratouris and Ambassiatouris of the King of Scotland..Promittis, in good Feith, in the Name of our said Soveraine Lord..that our said Soveraine Lord sauld Kepe and Observe..all the Premissis Wourde for Wourde. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxi^v/1 Whan my noble prince the Soudan of babilone had decerned to sende me his oratour to fraunce. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 37/22 Quhen the Laurentinis complenit..of thir iniuris done to thir oratouris & legatis. 1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. K.^v He daily messages doth send, With costly iewels orators of loue. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. xvii. 680 Scipio..sent C. Lælius with rich gifts and presents, as an Orator to treat with him. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 174 Audience is given to publick Oratours and Embassadours. 1929 J. L. La Monte & C. H. Taylor Anniv. Ess. Mediaeval Hist. 102 He was chosen to be head of his monastery. Later, Henry VII sent him to Rome as his orator. 1988 Renaissance Stud. 2 222 Two..visitors..to the Curia..were William Scheves, archbishop of St Andrews, and Robert Blacader, bishop of Glasgow. They came..as orators of James III and James IV. 5. More fully Public Orator. An official at a university, esp. Oxford and Cambridge, who speaks for the university on ceremonial occasions, introduces candidates for certain honorary degrees, and performs other written and spoken duties as a formal representative of the university.‘Orators’ were in early times sent by the universities as special envoys, e.g. to Councils of the Church, as that of Basel in 1430. A permanent Public Orator was appointed at Cambridge in 1522, and at Oxford in 1564. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > other officials non-regentc1447 taxer1532 subprincipal1562 scrutator1580 Master of Glomerya1591 orator1592 schoolkeeper?c1601 curator1612 subwarden1622 outrider1664 curator1669 domus1759 taxator1831 fetcher1890 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > in universities orator1592 prevaricator1615 varier1615 terrae filius1651 variator1749 1592 Let. 18 Sept. in Coll. Malone Soc. (1911) I. ii. 192 Your daylie Oratores the Vicechauncellor of the Vniu'sitie of Cambridge, and the rest of the Headdes of Colleges theare. 1614 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 305 The University Orator, Nethersole..is taxed for calling the prince Jacobissime Carole. 1645 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 116 William Strode..public orator of the University, died, M., 10 Mar. anno 1644/5. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 84 Dr. Henry Paman sometime Orator of the University of Cambridge. 1899 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 1 Public Orator. 1880 William Walter Merry, D.D. Rector of Lincoln. 1900 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 683 Unless the Fellow hold the office of Professor, Public Orator, Registrary, or Librarian in the University. 1992 Nottingham Graduate (BNC) Before each honorary degree is awarded by the Chancellor, the candidate is presented by a senior member of the academic staff known as the Public Orator. Compounds orator Mum n. [apparently originally a nickname given to John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish lawyer, politician, and judge, with reference to his first appearance in court, when his nervousness apparently rendered him initially unable to speak; a character of this name appears in J. O'Keeffe's opera The Son-in-Law (1783: see quot. 1783), but it is unclear whether Curran was so-called after the character, or vice versa] now rare (a name given to) a person who cannot or will not speak. ΚΠ 1783 J. O'Keeffe Son-in-Law i. iv. 25 My dear it proceeds from a confounded blunder of orator Mum's.] 1785 J. Cobb Hurly-Burly 10 The Magician Nordin has..presented it to his son, your rival, Mr. Orator Mum... The tongue of this his fav'rite offspring is spell bound.—No one can free it but Hymen. 1807 Salmagundi 25 Apr. 177 These silent members are..denominated orator mums. 1894 T. D. English Select Poems 446 He twiddled his thumbs, With an eloquence silent as Orator Mum's. 1997 Canad. Business (Nexis) Nov. (Canad. Speeches) v. His [sc. J. P. Curran's] repeated failures at the London debating society procured for him the title of Orator Mum. Derivatives † orator-like adj. and adv. Obsolete like or in the manner of an orator. ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 13 It were wel done & Oratourlike. 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 63 The Commendation of an eloquente and oratorlike stile. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Thess. iii. 4) Here the Apostle, Oratour-like, entereth their bosoms. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xii. 161 What is well, and Orator-like written or spoken. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384
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