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  • verb Present participle of perorate.

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Examples

  • And then, after making mockery of real democratic values that Chavez is so busily destructing at home, he starts perorating on PDVSA and what not, including Castro.

    Those exquisite revolutionary moments: media blitz at its worst 2007

  • The countess approached the divan in the centre of the room, where Raoul was perorating.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Homais came out of his shop, and Mere Lefrangois, in the midst of the crowd, seemed to be perorating.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • And as there was no one less impatient under sentiment or poetry than madame, her feet began to agitate themselves as if Jules were perorating some of his culinary inanities before her.

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • _Belated Orator_ (_perorating to an embarrassed stranger on a seat before him, under a muddled impression that he is addressing a spell-bound multitude_).

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

  • Did I hear our loquacious Fiddler perorating upon Life?

    First Plays 1919

  • But at the same moment, from his inevitable position on the hearth-rug, cigar in mouth, his hands in his waistcoat pockets, Stilling was impressively perorating.

    The Choice 1908

  • "And what, I ask you," I said perorating, "what on the face of the earth are we to do now?"

    All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

  • "Is it hares?" cried the Dublin tourist, perorating after a flight or two into the subject of poachers; "what d'ye think would happen a hare in Donegal?"

    All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

  • And we left him perorating on the steps of the hotel.

    Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

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