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rhetoricate

rhetoricate verb: to use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.

Verb

rhetoricate (third-person singular simple present rhetoricates, present participle rhetoricating, simple past and past participle rhetoricated)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.
    • , "A Discourse Against Long and Extempore Prayers"
      A person ready to sink under his Wants, has neither time, nor heart, to Rhetoricate, or make Flourishes.

Forms of rhetoricate

third-person singular presentrhetoricates
present participlerhetoricating
past participlerhetoricated
pastrhetoricated

Origin of rhetoricate

From Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.

Questions about rhetoricate

What does rhetoricate mean?
Rhetoricate means to use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.
What part of speech is rhetoricate?
Rhetoricate is a verb.
What is the past tense of rhetoricate?
The past tense of rhetoricate is rhetoricated.

Words near rhetoricate in the dictionary

  1. rhetorical questions
  2. rhetoricality
  3. rhetorically
  4. rhetoricalness
  5. rhetoricals
  6. rhetoricate
  7. rhetoricated
  8. rhetoricates
  9. rhetoricating
  10. rhetorication
  11. rhetorications

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