orator

Definitions

1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
2. speaker (public speaker)
3. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
4. Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
   obsolete
5. A petitioner, a supplicant.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight⟳ couragiouſlye with them? Or looke you, I ſhould play⟳ the Orator? Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies, Looke for orations when the foe is neere. Our ſwordes shall play⟳ the Orators for vs.”

“[…] when it becomes obvious that I have⟳ not the slightest skill as a speaker – unless, of course, by skilful speaker they mean⟳ one who speaks the truth. If that is what they mean⟳, I would agree⟳ that I am an orator, though not after their pattern.”

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