单词 | oratorship |
释义 | oratorshipn. The position or office of orator; spec. (in full Public Oratorship) the office of public orator in a university. Also: skill in oratory; eloquence. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > position or office of oratorship1592 1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. (1969) iii. 17 I was supposed not vnmeet for the Oratorship of the vniuersity. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P Hys missing of the Vniuersitie Oratorship, wherin Doctor Perne besteaded him. 1833 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 296 Germain..had found quite a new element, of Fraternisation, Sacred right of Insurrection, Oratorship of the Human Species. 1869 R. C. Jebb Let. 3 Nov. (1907) 98 I was standing for the Public Oratorship. 1878 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 469/2 The late Benjamin Robbins Curtis stood among the first scholars of Harvard's class of 1829; and he was also honored with the oratorship of his class. 1927 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 21 754 All the main characteristics of leadership were united in him: force of will, wide knowledge,..persuasive oratorship. 1961 Stud. in Renaissance 8 276 Sir Benjamin Ruddyard to whom Herbert says he is writing for support of his candidacy for the oratorship. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 17 June 10 Mark Antony's professed lack of oratorship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592 |
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