oratory
noun
[ ˈɒrət(ə)ri ]
• a small chapel, especially for private worship.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a society of priests without vows, especially the Oratory of St Philip Neri founded in 1564.
Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French oratorie, from ecclesiastical Latin oratorium, based on Latin orare ‘pray, speak’; sense 2 is from Congregation of the Fathers of the Oratory .
oratory
noun
• the art or practice of formal speaking in public.
• "the gift of persuasive oratory"
Similar:
rhetoric,
eloquence,
grandiloquence,
magniloquence,
public speaking,
speech-making,
declamation,
way with words,
the gift of the gab,
fluency,
Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin oratoria, feminine (used as a noun) of oratorius ‘relating to an orator’.
