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An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating animportant subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, adiscourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, ananniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from anargument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as,Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon.
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