ORATION, in Rhetoric, a speech or harangue, composed according to the rules of oratory, but spoken in public. Orations may be reduced to three kinds, viz. the demonstrative, deliberative, and judicial. To the demonstrative kind belong panegyrics, genethliaca, epithalamia, congratulations, &c. To the deliberative kind belong persuasion, exhortation, &c. And to the judicial kind belong accusation, confutation, &c. Funeral ORATION. See FUNERAL Oration.