orally


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
oral/ˈɔːrəl/
adjective
  • 1 spoken rather than written.
  • 2 relating to the mouth.

    ■ done or taken by the mouth.

    Psychoanalysis relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which the mouth is the main source of sensuous experience.

noun a spoken examination or test.
– derivatives
orally adverb.
– origin C17: from late L. oralis, from L. os, or- ‘mouth’.
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