Allocution

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Allocution \Al`lo*cu"tion\, n. [L. allocuto, fr. alloqui to
     speak to; ad + loqui to speak: cf. F. allocution.]
     1. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in
        words.
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     2. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a
        pope to his clergy. --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  allocution
       n : (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or
           exhorts

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "allocution":
     address, after-dinner speech, chalk talk, debate, declamation,
     diatribe, eulogy, exhortation, filibuster, forensic,
     forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue,
     hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective,
     jeremiad, lecture, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch,
     prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital,
     recitation, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say,
     screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk,
     talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address