The art of using language effectively so as to persuade or influence others, esp. the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional…

Oratorical utterance; elocution; delivery; spec. elegant or eloquent delivery. Obsolete.

Rhetoric; eloquence.

Pleasing or agreeable language or speech; eloquence.

The art of the orator or of public speaking; the formal art of speaking eloquently or persuasively, esp. according to set rules; rhetoric.

Rhetorical speech or language; (also) a rhetorical figure or flourish.

Utterance, delivery; = pronunciation, n. 1a.

A rhetorical declamation (as opposed to an argument).

= rhetoric, n.1

The fact or quality of being rhetorical; (formerly) spec. †eloquence (obsolete).

The art of declamation with appropriate gestures (= Greek ἡ ὑποκριτική, sc. τέχνη). rare.

(a) In sense 19a, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of the Union Society at Oxford or Cambridge University’, as Union audience, Union…

Oratory.

Competence in oral language; the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech. Also: the oral transmission of culture, ideas, etc.