Oratory is a type of

public speaking Public speaking, also called oratory or oration, has traditionally meant the act of speaking face to face to a live audience. Today it includes any form of speaking (formally and informally) to an audience, including pre-recorded speech deliver ...

. Oratory may also refer to: *

Eloquence Eloquence (from French ''eloquence'' from Latin ''eloquentia'') is fluent, elegant, persuasive, and forceful speech, persuading an audience. Eloquence is both a natural talent and improved by knowledge of language, study of a specific subject ...

, fluent, forcible, elegant, or persuasive speaking *

Rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

, the art of discourse

Places

Oratory (worship) In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an oratory is a place which is set aside by permission of an ordinary for divine worship, for the convenience of some community or group of the faithful who assemble there, but to which other members of ...

, a public or private place of divine worship, akin to a chapel * The Oratory, Liverpool, a former mortuary chapel in Liverpool, England *

Birmingham Oratory The Birmingham Oratory is an English Catholic religious community of the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, located in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. The community was founded in 1849 by St. John Henry Newman, Cong.Orat., the fi ...

London Oratory The London Oratory ("the Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London") is a Catholic community of priests living under the rule of life established by its founder, Philip Neri (1515-1595). It is housed in an Oratory House, next to ...

* Oxford Oratory * York Oratory * Petergate House * More House * Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, Canada

Religious orders

* Oratory of the Good Shepherd (Anglican) * Oratory of Jesus, or "French Oratory" (Roman Catholic) * Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (Roman Catholic) *

Teologisk Oratorium Theologisk Oratorium (''Theological Oratory'') is a Lutheran, moderately High Church Lutheran, high church, religious Brotherhood for men in the Church of Denmark. It was founded in 1927. Dissolved in 2016. Foundation Thomas Lønborg-Jensen had bee ...

(Lutheran)

Places

Religious orders

See also