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The London Oratory 

A place of Roman Catholic teaching where instead of a school prom, there is chapel every other week. On special occasions such as saint's feast days, jugs of very poorly rationed cordial is handed out to the pupils at lunch. Members of this place are referred to as Oratorians. An Oratorian can easily be summoned through loudly chanting "pater noster" in which the summoned Oratorian will reply "qui est in chelis". Pupils of the London Oratory will be told that they go to the "Eton of state schools" only for when they visit Eton in rugby matches the pupils are puzzled due to the lack of similarity in any shape or form. Each of the 7 years are divided into six houses, which very uncompetitively compete to win the annual house cup. This is due to the fact that not one individual is aware of how a house gets points only that when you come back after the summer another house's name is added onto the big wooden board.
I go to the London oratory it's kind of put me off the whole Catholicism idea.
The London Oratory is in severe debt but at least the library looks cool.
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oratorical 

Relating to one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker.
After participating on the debate team for three years, I decided to partake in an oratorical contest.
oratorical by Morgan T November 10, 2006
verb: to get head in a bathroom stall from a slut
I got the original oratory at the dance in September
Oratory by rams2010 February 13, 2010

oratory school 

A small but well known catholic Boarding School in England where people with too much money send their arrogant boys and continue to throw money at them until they finish and go to university/rehab for cocaine/drug addiction.
"He is so up himself... he must be from the Oratory School"
oratory school by slimon December 10, 2006

Oratory Spackle 

ME.
someone who fills conversation or quiet pauses until someone more interesting arrives.
Oratory Spackle

Sue: How are you, you don't look so good. How have you been feeling?

Me: Well, actually I have kind of a bad headache this morning and I have been feeling kinda.....

(someone more interesting walks in the room)

Sue: HEY GIRL, GOOD MORNING!!! HOW YOU BEEN?!

.. then i leave the room.

Also, can be useful at parties. I arrive early and stand around talking about movies or reality tv, until more important guests arrive.
Oratory Spackle by Kerilotion November 24, 2009
Someone who speaks perfect English and uses perfect grammar in their sentences. Not so much that but someone who knows the difference between their, they're and there and when to use them. Also applies with your and you're. Correct use of the apostrophe to show possession is one of the first steps to becoming an orator.
The orator: Death to the illiterate.
orator by the orator September 22, 2005

Orator non penum 

(Latin) Literally, "the speaker has no penis." In rhetoric, an unanswerable comeback to a nominally male opponent who believes in the magical powers of the so-called "logical fallacies" to replace the missing member and thereby to "win" an "argument."
A: Sometimes I wonder if Shakira really is as good as people say she is.
B (triumphantly): Argumentum ad populum!
A: Well met, good sir. However: Orator non penum.
Audience: (Raucous laughter).

A has won the argument.
Orator non penum by Pliny April 28, 2014