elocutev.
/ˈɛləkjuːt/ To practise elocution; to declaim in an elocutionary manner.
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1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxi. 266 They didn't yellocute long till the audience got up.
1896 Idler Mar. 183/1 ‘Elocute’ as he might, his reputation was always overshadowed by that of a ‘past’ boy.
1908 Dial. Notes 3 308 Elocute, v.i., to recite in elocutionary style.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. x. 121 That was fine. I don't know but what you can elocute just as good as Ella.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. iv. 47 Ella is our shark at elocuting.
1963 Times 14 May 15/4 Dorothy Reynolds's Oenone, flutingly elocuted.
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