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orate, v.|ˈɔəreɪt, ɒˈreɪt|
[f. L. orāt-, ppl. stem of ōrāre to speak, plead, pray.
This word is occasionally instanced since c 1600, but has only recently come into more common use, as a back-formation from oration, app. first in U.S. c 1860; in Dictionaries it is recorded in Webster Supp. (1879).]
1. intr.
†a. To pray; to plead. Obs.
b. To deliver an oration; to act the orator; to hold forth, ‘speechify’. Now usually humorous or sarcastic.
c1600Timon ii. iv. (1842) 32 O let it bee lawfull for mee..to orate and exorate. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. Introd. 4 A Rhetorician, whose businesse is to orate and persuade. 1780Town & Country Mag. June 294/1 Four actresses, who..obtained better salaries for orating at Carlisle-house. 1828Southey Ess. (1832) II. 269 Write, and orate, and legislate as we will upon the principles of free trade. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 18 Nov., General Banks..has been ‘orating’ in New York. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. (ed. 2) 430, I..passed on, and left him orating. a1881J. L. Diman in C. Hazard Mem. xi. (1887) 231 Last week I went to Andover and repeated my address, and next week do the same at Burlington; so you see my time this summer is much taken up with ‘orating’.
2. trans. To address in a harangue. rare.
1885W. Rye Hist. Norfolk v. 71 A turbaned boy on a platform orated her for the fourth time. |