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Oral

adjective

1.

Using speech rather than writing. Synonym: unwritten. "An oral agreement"

2.

Of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth. "An oral thermometer" , "An oral vaccine"

3.

Of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located. "The oral mucous membrane" , "The oral surface of a starfish"

4.

A stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression.

noun

1.

An examination conducted by spoken communication. Synonyms: oral exam, oral examination, viva, viva voce.

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"Oral" Quotes from Famous Books

... does in their purely instrumental works. The old masters left few—sometimes not any—indications as to the manner in which their music should be rendered. Thus its proper performance is largely determined by received oral tradition. The printed scores of the classics, except those that have been specially edited, throw little light on their proper interpretation, or even at times on the actual notes to be sung. To perform ...

— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... intended the eternal truths known ideally from the beginning, and historically realized in the manifestation of the Word in Christ Jesus; and that he used the ideal immutable truth as the canon and criterion of the oral traditions. For example, a Greek mathematician, standing in the same relation of time and country to Euclid as that in which St. Paul stood to Jesus Christ, might have exclaimed in the same spirit: ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... robes and coronet—the beadle in his gaudy livery of scarlet, and purple, and gold—the dignitary in the fulness of his pomp—the demagogue in the triumph of his hollowness—these and other visual and oral cheats by which mankind are cajoled, have passed in review before us, conjured up by the magic ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 17, 1841 • Various

... near his intimate friend, the pious scholarly Benedictine, was a solace in life and a never failing incentive to his own intellectual work. Desiderius seems, indeed, to have been a large factor in influencing the great physician to write his books rather than devote himself to oral teaching, since the circulation of his writing would confer so much more of benefit on a greater number of people. Perhaps another element in the situation was that Desiderius was desirous of having the learned physician, the travelled scholar, at Monte Cassino, ...

— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

... at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written; and while they were unfixed by any visible signs, must have been spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When ...

— Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language • Samuel Johnson

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