elocute
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of elocute
C19: back formation from elocution
Example Sentences
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Movie teenagers are typically depicted as either awkward, loner virgins or erudite pontificators who elocute with the unearned-for-their-age wit of Noel Coward.
From Washington Times • Aug. 13, 2015
A bigger stage causes everyone to elocute a bit more: Niamh Cusack as the sympathetic teacher is more goody-goody than she was before.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013
As an aid to public speaking I was taught to "elocute," and I remember in every mournful detail the occasion on which I gave my first recitation.
From The Story of a Pioneer by Shaw, Anna Howard
"But if he would rather hear Kate elocute about it than to lie and listen to the real thing, he's nothing more or less than a nature pirate."
From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.
You may teach him to fence, and to dance, and to elocute till he is black in the face; you will never teach him to play “Othello” unless he is an actor.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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