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perorate, v.|ˈpɛrəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. perōrāre to speak at length or to the close, f. per- 1 + ōrāre to speak.]
1. intr. To speak at length, deliver an oration.
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xxii. 493 Now hauing perorated (as he thinkes) sufficiently, he beginnes to growe to a conclusion. 1620Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent ii. 125 They should demand of the Pope, some man of worth to perorate against the accused. 1827Carlyle Misc., Richter (1869) 4 Dr. Gabler and Dr. Spazier were perorating over the grave. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 331 They will let the intelligent Unitarian perorate for ever about the Atonement if he likes.
b. trans. To utter with declamation, declaim.
1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 119 Thus did he perorat his fliting. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. ii. (1872) 60 A foolish stump-orator, perorating..mere benevolences.
2. intr. To sum up or conclude a speech or oration; to utter the peroration of a speech.
1808De Quincey Let. to Sister 20 June in ‘H. A. Page’ Life (1877) I. 140, I summed up or perorated by impressing on his misguided mind that [etc.]. 1818Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 336 The following innocent conclusion with which Visconti perorates. 1855Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxiv, How we shall prologuize, how we shall perorate.
Hence ˈperorating ppl. a.
1897Daily News 17 Mar. 6/4 [He] has that besetting sin of perorating speakers—he drops his voice at the close of his periods. |