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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Oration \O*ra"tion\, noun[L. oratio, fr. orare to speak, utter, pray. See {Oral}, {Orison}.] An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument 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.
Syn: Address; speech. See {Harangue}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Oration \O*ra"tion\, verb (used without an object) To deliver an oration. --Donne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
oration
noun: an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "oration": address, after-dinner speech, allocution, chalk talk, debate, declamation, declaration, diatribe, discourse, eulogy, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, lecture, monologue, panegyric, 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, spiel, talk, talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address
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