ALLOCUTION

allocution

(noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

allocution (countable and uncountable, plural allocutions)

A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.

(chiefly, US, legal) The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.

(chiefly, US, legal) The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.

(Roman Catholicism) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.

(communications, media) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.

Anagrams

• loculation

Source: Wiktionary

Al`lo*cu"tion, n. Etym: [L. allocuto, fr. alloqui to speak to; ad + loqui to speak: cf. F. allocution.]

1. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

2. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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