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Word: Oratory
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French oratorie, from ecclesiastical Latin oratorium, based on Latin orare ‘pray, speak’; sense 2 is from Congregation of the Fathers of the Oratory
ˈɒrət(ə)ri
a small chapel, especially for private worship.
Short Definition:small chapel
(in the Roman Catholic Church) a society of priests without vows, especially the Oratory of St Philip Neri founded in 1564.
Short Definition:society of priests
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