oratorio (oratorio)

[ Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 140. 21. A prayer; supplication; petition. Finding not onely by his speeches and letters, but by Philip Neri: see oratory .] 1. A place of wort he pitifull oration of a languishing behaviour,. despaire began now to threaten him destruction. that Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 3. Noise; uproar. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]Olynthiac orations. See Olynthiac. = Syn. 1. Addre , Harangue, etc. See speech .