Meanings of oratorian in English

But as he proceeded in his researches he sensibly felt that the business was one above even an oratorian or a monsignore.

Such people would have despised a Demosthenes, or a Cicero, with all their rhetorical flourishes, if their oratorian gowns had been in pledge.

I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

A fellow-countryman of yours, Father F-- ,anOratorian priest from Norwood, England, will preach.

The work of this Oratorian was at least strange.

This Oratorian and his admirers have stated that I wore a hair shirt and shroud.

One of these appointed in 1688 was an Oratorian, and as such very partial to Quesnel and the Jansenists.

Father Theimer is kind enough to allow me to occupy his apartments in the almost uninhabited house of the Oratorian.

Froude carefully kept this letter, and, remote as their opinions were, he never varied in his loyal admiration of the illustrious Oratorian.

The writer had been an Oratorian, but having been expelled from that society in 1684 he took refuge with Antoine Arnauld in Brussels.

That of the saint's panegyrics on the martyrs, is the work of F. Durauty de Bourecueil, an Oratorian, and made its appearance in 1735.

* Billaud-Varennes, a former oratorian monk, irascible and gloomy, as cool before a murder as an inquisitor at an auto-da-fé;