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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation.
  • intransitive verb To speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make a peroration; by extension, to make a speech, especially a grandiloquent one.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb colloq. To make a peroration; to harangue.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
  • verb intransitive To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
  • verb conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin perōrāre, perōrāt- : per-, per- + ōrāre, to speak.]

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Examples

  • This means there's a link between me and Richard Brinsley Sheridan and it's that both of us can perorate entertainingly on public issues at undue length.

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  • This means there's a link between me and Richard Brinsley Sheridan and it's that both of us can perorate entertainingly on public issues at undue length.

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  • Canalis, like many men accustomed to perorate, allowed to be too plainly seen.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • We have seen legislators perorate, obfuscate, concilliate, mediate ....

    In The Eye of the Hurricane 2007

  • You think it no evil to inflame a poor heart, and you perorate as warmly in your deliriums of love as the wretched lawyer who comes with red eyes from a suit he has lost.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • Men cannot for ever perorate, and agitate and plot.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • Let him taste your irony; ply him with your keen incessant questions; and if you will, perorate with the mighty Zeus charioting his winged car through Heaven, and grudging if this fellow get not his deserts.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • "Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate you to crime," -- and he proceeded to develop his thesis, standing both feet in the kennel, as he had once been used to perorate, seated in one of Baron d'Holbach's gilt armchairs, which, as he was fond of saying, formed the basis of natural philosophy.

    Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

  • So little was he supposed to have spoken seriously that another, of whose ceasing to perorate there is no prospect, characterized his criticism in language so strong that it cannot well be repeated.

    Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

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