Extracted From: A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856 by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA ORATOR, practice. A good man, skillful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private.... 2. In chancery, the party who files a bill calls himself in those pleadings your orator. Among the Romans, advocates were called orators....