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Perorate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue. intransitive
  2. 2
    deliver an oration in grandiloquent style wordnet
  3. 3
    To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech. intransitive
  4. 4
    conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation wordnet

Etymology

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

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