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i.; pret. and pp. orated, ppr. orating. [In form It. orare = Sp. Pg. orar ), pray, speak; but in fact humorously formed from oration, orator, after the analogy of indicate, indicator, etc., il lustrate, illustrator, etc.: see oration.] To make an oration; talk loftily; harangue. [Recent, and used humorously or contemptuously.] Men are apt to be measured by their capacity to arise at a moment's notice and orate on any topic that chances to be uppermost. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XLIII. 848. orate fratres (ō-ra'tē frā'trēz). [L., pray, brethren: orate , 2d pers. pl. pres. impv. of orare , pray; fratres , voc. pl. of frater , brother: see frater.] In the Rom . Cath . Ch ., the celebrant's exhortation to the people, asking them to pray that the eucharistic sacrifice about to be offered by him and them may be acceptable to God. The orate fratres is so called from its first two words, "Pray, brethren." It succeeds the offertory anthem and the lavabo, and is succeeded (after its response, "May the Lord receive the sacrifice," etc.) by the Secreta. oratio (ō-rā'shiō), n.; pl. or at i ones (ō-rā-shi-ō'. nēz). [L.: see oration.] In liturgiology, a prayer, especially a collect; in the plural, post-communion prayers corresponding in number to the collects. IMG:content-1786.jpg:[graphic] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary oration Pg. oração = It. or azione, Upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. Acts xii. 21. Orations are pleadings, speeches of counsel, laudatives, invectives, apologies, reprehensions, orations of formality or ceremony, and the like. 4138 oratorical (or-a-tor'i-kal), a. [ Each man has a faculty, a poetical faculty, or an ora torical faculty, which special education improves to a certain extent. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biology, § 67. oratorically (or-a-tor'i-kal-i), adv. In an oratorical manner.