society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > use lofty or grandiloquent style (3)
intransitive. To perform in a tragedy; to perform as a tragedian. Also: to speak, write, or behave in a tragic style or manner. Now rare.
intransitive. To speak or write in a grandiloquent tragic style. Cf. tragedize, v. 1b.
intransitive. Perhaps: to speak grandiloquently or pompously. Cf. rotund, adj. 2. Obsolete.