单词 | orate |
释义 | oratev. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > beseech or implore beseech?c1225 praya1250 plead1340 pursuec1390 implore?a1513 perplead1581 entreat1593 beg1598 oratec1600 contest1607 deprecate1626 imprecatea1645 obtest1650 prig1700 special-plead1814 plea1868 c1600 Timon (1980) ii. iv. 29 O let it bee lawfull for mee..to orate & exorate. b. intransitive. To deliver an oration; to act the orator; (in mocking or humorous use) to hold forth pompously or at length. Also transitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] deliverc1400 repeat1579 speak1583 perore1594 perorate1603 oratorize1620 concionatea1641 speech1684 speechify1723 oration1764 orate1780 platform1859 elocutionize1883 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. Introd. 4 A Rhetorician, whose businesse is to orate and persuade. 1780 Town & Country Mag. June 294/1 Four actresses, who..obtained better salaries for orating at Carlisle-house. 1832 R. Southey Ess. II. 269 Write, and orate, and legislate as we will upon the principles of free trade. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 18 Nov. General Banks..has been ‘orating’ in New York. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 430 I..passed on, and left him orating. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. at Sotheby, William On 22 April 1828 Scott was Sotheby's guest at a dinner party at his London house, when..Coleridge orated on Homer and other topics. 1905 G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Jan. (1972) II. 491 I never became an orator. People do not orate in England as they do in America. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xiii. 655 I was, as it were, orating my speech. 1979 Time 13 Aug. 35/3 At Vatican II's first session in 1962, he was orating against liturgical reform and ran well beyond the ten-minute limit on speeches. 1992 New Yorker 3 Feb. 51/2 The Ben Shahn sketch of King's round, bullish head orating with mouth opened wide in a roar of power. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > harangue Trafalgar Square1869 orate1885 1885 W. Rye Hist. Norfolk v. 71 A turbaned boy on a platform orated her for the fourth time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1600 |
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