Definition of "orated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of orate. (verb)

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• ""orated," invariably using a conversational tone; many of his points were driven home by humorous allusions or anecdotes rather than by didactic logic."
• "Any of the above could have easily been written by Matt, exclaimed by Pelosi, orated by Obama."
• "The woman kept saying, "Fuck me, Gerald," in a cut-glass accent, which was funny, but Gerald himself soon wiped the grin off my face with his grunting, which wasn't really grunting at all, but instead consisted of the words "oh" and "ah" crisply orated aloud, like Sir Laurence Olivier reading dialogue off a card at an early rehearsal."