[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

oration \ora"tion\, v. i.
   to deliver an oration. --donne.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

oration \ora"tion\, n.l. oratio, fr. orare to speak, utter,
   pray. see oral, orison.
   an elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an
   important subject in a formal and dignified manner;
   especially, a discourse having reference to some special
   occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the
   like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular
   harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, webster's oration at
   bunker hill.
   1913 webster

         the lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. --bacon.
   1913 webster

   syn: address; speech. see harangue.
        1913 webster
see also:
oral orison harangue 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

oration
     n : an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the
         decline of family values"

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

52 moby thesaurus words for "oration":
   address, after-dinner speech, allocution, chalk talk, debate,
   declamation, declaration, diatribe, discourse, eulogy, exhortation,
   filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech,
   funeral oration, harangue, homily, hortatory address, inaugural,
   inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, lecture, monologue,
   panegyric, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech,
   prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation,
   sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed,
   set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, spiel, talk,
   talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

Oration >> O Words
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Chief Seattle's Speech of 1854 - Version 1
..."CHIEF SEATTLE'S 1854 ORATION" - ver . 1. AUTHENTIC TEXT OF CHIEF ... SEATTLE'S TREATY ORATION 1854 Yonder sky that has wept tears of ... ..
http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html, score=100, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 6:03 am

Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration
...The funeral oration over these dead was delivered by the brilliant and ... The Funeral Oration is the classic statement of Athenian ideology, ... ..
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/PERICLES.HTM, score=60, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 2:44 pm

Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration
...The funeral oration over these dead was delivered by the brilliant and ... The Funeral Oration is the classic statement of Athenian ideology, ... ..
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/PERICLES.HTM, score=59, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 1:45 pm

... ..
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Mirandola/, score=58, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 2:53 am

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. V
...Funeral Oration on Meletius. Funeral Oration on Meletius. The number ... ..
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-05/Npnf2-05-41.htm, score=49, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 3:43 am

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
...Oration XXIX. The Third Theological Oration.. On the Son.. Oration ... The Third Theological Oration.. On the Son.. I. This then is what ... ..
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-44.htm, score=48, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 10:46 pm

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
...Oration XXVIII.. The Second Theological Oration.. Oration XXVIII.. The ... ..
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-43.htm, score=44, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 9:41 am

Pericles' Funeral Oration
...When Pericles was asked to give the official funeral oration for the ... here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to ... ..
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/pericles.html, score=44, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 5:57 am

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
...Oration XXVII. The First Theological Oration.. A Preliminary Discourse ... Oration XXVII. The First Theological Oration.. A Preliminary Discourse ... ..
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-42.htm, score=43, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 3:45 am

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