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perorate

perorate verb: to speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.

Verb

perorate (third-person singular simple present perorates, present participle perorating, simple past and past participle perorated)

  1. (intransitive) To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
  2. (intransitive) To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech.

Forms of perorate

third-person singular presentperorates
present participleperorating
past participleperorated
pastperorated

Origin of perorate

First attested in 1603; borrowed from Latin perōrātus, perfect passive participle of perōrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, per- + orate.

Questions about perorate

What does perorate mean?
Perorate means to speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
What part of speech is perorate?
Perorate is a verb.
What is the past tense of perorate?
The past tense of perorate is perorated.

Words near perorate in the dictionary

  1. peropsins
  2. peroqua
  3. peroquas
  4. peroral
  5. perorally
  6. perorate
  7. perorated
  8. perorates
  9. perorating
  10. peroration
  11. perorational

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