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Perorate

verb
1.
Conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation.
2.
Deliver an oration in grandiloquent style.





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"Perorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Count Kengyelesy to him one day, after he had been indulging in an unusually fiery philippic at Quarter Sessions, "why, old fellow, what sort of venom have you swallowed that makes you perorate so savagely against this worthy Fatia Negra. If anybody has cause to complain against him it is I, for he relieved me of 1,000 ducats on the high road, and so cleverly did the rascal manage it, that I cannot find it in my heart ...
— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai
... an Academy dinner that originality was the great characteristic of English art. 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. Let us admit that Lord Beaconsfield was either mistaken, or that, like the Consul Aulus, "he spake a bitter jest." Our artists, ...
— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Perorate" :   peroration, recite, declaim, conclude


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