Category:Orator

Or"a*tor, n. Etym: [l., fr. orare to speak, utter. See oration.]

1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one Distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is Eloquent. I am no orator, as brutus is. Shak. Some orator renowned in athens or free rome. Milton.

2. (law) (a) in equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. (b) a plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. Burrill.

3. (eng. Universities)

Defn: an officer who is the voice of the university upon all public Occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public Nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom Honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.