OPage 102
- English Word Oratorio Definition A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.
- English Word Oratorio Definition Performance or rendering of such a composition.
- English Word Oratorious Definition Oratorical.
- English Word Oratorize Definition To play the orator.
- English Word Oratory Definition A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
- English Word Oratory Definition The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
- English Word Oratress Definition A woman who makes public addresses.
- English Word Oratrix Definition A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
- English Word Orb Definition A blank window or panel.
- English Word Orb Definition A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
- English Word Orb Definition One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
- English Word Orb Definition A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
- English Word Orb Definition A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
- English Word Orb Definition The eye, as luminous and spherical.
- English Word Orb Definition A revolving circular body; a wheel.
- English Word Orb Definition A sphere of action.
- English Word Orb Definition Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
- English Word Orb Definition A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
- English Word Orb Definition To form into an orb or circle.
- English Word Orb Definition To encircle; to surround; to inclose.