Adverb

(en adverb)

By mouth.

This medicine is taken orally . Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.

Spoken as opposed to written.

I took the make up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.

Adverb

(en adverb)

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud , and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}

Audibly, as opposed to silent.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud . Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}