Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Allocution

Allocution ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin allocuto, from alloqui to speak to; ad + loqui to speak: compare French 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