allocution

Roget category 586

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#586. Allocution

noun

allocution, alloquy^†, address — speech etc. 582 — apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation — word in the ear.
[Feigned dialogue] dialogism^†.
platform etc. 542 — plank — audience etc. (interview) 588.

verb

speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to, invoke — ball, salute — call to, halloo.
take aside, take by the button — talk to in private.
lecture etc. (make a speech) 582.

interjection

soho! ^†, halloo!, hey!, hist!,

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