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   Or·a·to·ry

   /ˈôrəˌtôrē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small chapel, especially for private worship.
   • 2. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a society of priests without vows, especially the Oratory of St. Philip Neri founded in 1564.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French oratorie, from ecclesiastical Latin oratorium, based on Latin orare ‘pray, speak’; sense 2 is from Congregation of the Fathers of the Oratory.

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