Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to oration
Participle: orationed
Gerund: orationing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | oration |
| you | oration |
| he;she;it | orations |
| we | oration |
| you | oration |
| they | oration |
Perfect
| I | have orationed |
| you | have orationed |
| he;she;it | has orationed |
| we | have orationed |
| you | have orationed |
| they | have orationed |
Past
| I | orationed |
| you | orationed |
| he;she;it | orationed |
| we | orationed |
| you | orationed |
| they | orationed |
Pluperfect
| I | had orationed |
| you | had orationed |
| he;she;it | had orationed |
| we | had orationed |
| you | had orationed |
| they | had orationed |
Future
| I | will oration |
| you | will oration |
| he;she;it | will oration |
| we | will oration |
| you | will oration |
| they | will oration |
Future Perfect
| I | will have orationed |
| you | will have orationed |
| he;she;it | will have orationed |
| we | will have orationed |
| you | will have orationed |
| they | will have orationed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | oration |
| you | oration |
| he;she;it | oration |
| we | oration |
| you | oration |
| they | oration |
Perfect
| I | have orationed |
| you | have orationed |
| he;she;it | have orationed |
| we | have orationed |
| you | have orationed |
| they | have orationed |
Imperfect
| I | orationed |
| you | orationed |
| he;she;it | orationed |
| we | orationed |
| you | orationed |
| they | orationed |
Pluperfect
| I | had orationed |
| you | had orationed |
| he;she;it | had orationed |
| we | had orationed |
| you | had orationed |
| they | had orationed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would oration |
| you | would oration |
| he;she;it | would oration |
| we | would oration |
| you | would oration |
| they | would oration |
Perfect
| I | would have orationed |
| you | would have orationed |
| he;she;it | would have orationed |
| we | would have orationed |
| you | would have orationed |
| they | would have orationed |
Imperative
| you | oration |
| we | Let's oration |
| you | oration |
Verbs conjugated like 'oration'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'oration'
ration,
fraction,
option,
portion,
ratio,
ratoon,
station,
traction,
action,
auction,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem, from ōrō (“to orate”) + -tiō (“action (nominalizer)”). Cognate with and doublet of orison. See: Latin '
ōrātiō'.
Sample Sentences
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1633, John Donne (attributed translator), The Auncient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since, London, p. 80, cited in Henry Todd, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, Volume 3,
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They gave answers with great sufficiency touching all difficulties concerning their own law, and had marvellous promptitude both for orationing and giving judgement.
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1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garratt, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote, Dublin: S. Price et al., 1778, Volume 1, p. 286,
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[…] Master Primmer is the man for my money; a man of learning; that can lay down the law: why, adzooks, he is wise enough to puzzle the parson: and then, how you have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve of a Saturday night, about Russia and Prussia […]
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What right have you to be lecturing and orationing? You’ve no knowledge. [1876, George Meredith, chapter 10, in Beauchamp’s Career, volume 2, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 129:]