An elaborate or formal public speech.
One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the scriptures.
The art of public speaking.
Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
A consecration to the ministry.
A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
Wild or wanton revelry.
The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.