declamatory+art
71Monteverdi, Claudio — ▪ Italian composer and musician Introduction baptized May 15, 1567, Cremona, Duchy of Milan died November 29, 1643, Venice Italian composer of the late Renaissance, the most important developer of the then new genre, the opera. He also did much… …
72Cyril of Turov — (Kirill of Turov) (ca. 1130–1182) Cyril was a 12th century bishop of Turov, in the northwestern part of the Russian principality of Kiev. He was a writer and a renowned preacher, whose sermons are among the most popular in Old Russian, and… …
73Olivier, Laurence — (1907 1989) The actor and director was born on May 22, 1907, in Dorkey, Surrey, England. The son of an Anglican clergyman, he took up acting while at St. Edward’s School in Oxford. He was a member of the Birmingham Repertory Company from 1926… …
74speech — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Oral communication Nouns 1. speech, talk, faculty of speech; locution, parlance, expression, vernacular, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion, discourse; soliloquy;… …
75elocutionary — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of or relating to the art of public speaking: declamatory, oratorical, rhetorical. See WORDS …
76declamation — n. 1 the act or art of declaiming. 2 a rhetorical exercise or set speech. 3 an impassioned speech; a harangue. Derivatives: declamatory adj. Etymology: F deacuteclamation or L declamatio (as DECLAIM) …
