Synonyms for orally
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : awr-uh l, ohr- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr əl, ˈoʊr- |
Définition of orally
Origin :- 1620s, from Late Latin oralis, from Latin os (genitive oris) "mouth, opening, face, entrance," from PIE *os-/*ous- "mouth" (cf. Sanskrit asan "mouth," asyam "mouth, opening," Avestan ah-, Hittite aish, Middle Irish a "mouth," Old Norse oss "mouth of a river," Old English or "beginning, origin, front"). Psychological meaning "of the mouth as the focus of infantile sexual energy" (e.g. oral fixation) is from 1910. The sexual sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, "oral examination," attested from 1876. Related: Orally (c.1600); orality.
- adv verbally
- The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- It is a waste of the student's time to present orally that which can be found in print.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- They may read the questions silently, answering them orally.
- Extract from : « Where We Live » by Emilie Van Beil Jacobs
- To the sound ou he prefixes an e (hard to exemplify otherwise than orally).
- Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
- But who guarantees that we shall have what was orally promised to us?
- Extract from : « Current History, A Monthly Magazine » by New York Times
- And explains to them orally where each is to take post, and how to behave.
- Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
- But what he did not say orally he was very likely to say on paper.
- Extract from : « Atlantic Narratives » by Mary Antin
- He does not communicate personally and orally with creatures.
- Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 » by Various
- He can do nothing of all this with what you say to him orally.
- Extract from : « Human Intercourse » by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- She had loved to listen to his tales, handed down to him orally from his ancestors.
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Forest » by L. T. Meade
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