perorate

[per-uh-reyt]

verb (used without object)

perorated, perorating 

1. to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.

2. to bring a speech to a close with a formal conclusion.

perorate

/ ˈpɛrəˌreɪt /

verb

1. to speak at length, esp in a formal manner

2. to conclude a speech or sum up, esp with a formal recapitulation

Other Word Forms

• perorator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of perorate¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin perōrātus, past participle of perōrāre; per-, orate

Example Sentences

“I’ll just look into my soft drink and listen to someone else perorate about me,” Sting said.

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It perorates for a supernaturalist whose fashionable ignorance, touched with less durable vulgarity, blinded him to such visions as, in our time, the poet "A. E." has depicted.

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The venerable Earl of Hughenden came in as I was perorating.

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A third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold and startling announcement—"This writer is unquestionably a highly respectable youth."

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Mr. Tompkins marries their insights to those of Jews, Buddhists and Muslims, and he perorates with a survey of people who have encountered apparitions of dead animals.

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