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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORATORY (See also:Lat. See also:oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)  , the See also:art of speaking eloquently or in accordance with the rules of See also:rhetoric (q.v.) . From See also:Lat. oratorium, sc. templum, a See also:place of See also:prayer, comes the use of the word for a small See also:chapel or place of prayer for the use of private individuals, generally attached to a See also:mansion and sometimes to a See also:church . The name is also given to small chapels built to commemorate some See also:special deliverance .

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