| Allocution 1. (n.) The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words. 2. (n.) An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Thesaurus Entries address, after-dinner speech, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, eulogy, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, lecture, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address |