More fully Public Orator. An official at a university, esp. Oxford and Cambridge, who speaks for the university on ceremonial occasions…
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释义 | the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > in universities (5) orator1592 More fully Public Orator. An official at a university, esp. Oxford and Cambridge, who speaks for the university on ceremonial occasions… prevaricator1615 Cambridge University. An orator who makes a humorous or satirical speech at the degree ceremony; = varier, n. 1. Now historical. varier1615 Historical. = prevaricator, n. 3. Obsolete. terrae filius1651 Formerly, at the University of Oxford: An orator privileged to make humorous and satirical strictures in a speech at the public ‘act’. (In quot… variator1749 In University use: (see vary, v. 5d). Obsolete. |
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