oratorical
adj/ˌɒɹəˈtɒɹɪkəl/
Etymology From orator or oratory + -ical, or else from Latin ōrātōrius.
1
of, or relating to oratory or an orator.
- A to'oto'o is a Sāmoan oratorical staff.
- The rest were looking at Coker curiously. It was the first time they had heard him in one of his oratorical moods.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 204:
1 more example
- I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 558:
- Derived terms
- oratorically, unoratorical