单词 | oratress |
释义 | oratressn.ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > one who pleads pleader?a1300 mooterc1450 oratress1562 case-putter1680 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 20v She that this mornyng could her mistres mynde disswade, Is now becomme an Oratresse, her lady to perswade. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. ix. 35 Because I see Loues Oratresse pleads tediouslie to thee. 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 16 Had such an Oratresse beene heard to plead For faire Polixena. 1660 Char. Italy 14 Provided the Lady Pecunia be your Suada or Oratress. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 475/1 Oratrix, or Oratress, a female petitioner; a female plaintiff in a bill in Chancery [ed. 1872 adds was formerly so called]. 2. A female public speaker.The non-gender-specific term orator is now generally preferred. 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 the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > female oratrice1432 oratrixa1469 oratress1587 invitress1617 solicitress1631 solicitrix1637 suitress1691 1587 R. Greene Penelopes Web sig. H1v The eldest Sister hearing how cunningly and yet crookedly this pretie Oratresse aimed at ye matter, could not suffer to heare so long a tale without replye. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 98/2 (The School of Rhetorick) To each fair oratress this school Its rhet'ric strong affords. 1819 T. Moore Mem. (1853) II. 354 The oratoress gave her opinion pretty freely of the family. 1868 W. Whitman Poems 83 Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public halls. 1944 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 31 69 Lincoln sat with bowed head as the self-possessed oratress finished her criticisms. 1987 Amer. Lit. 49 277 The much discussed..pre-Civil War oratress Eliza P. Moseley. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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