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Definition of "perorate" [per•o•rate]

  • To conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation. (verb-intransitive)
  • To speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "perorate" in a sentence
  • "This means there's a link between me and Richard Brinsley Sheridan and it's that both of us can perorate entertainingly on public issues at undue length."
  • "We have seen legislators perorate, obfuscate, concilliate, mediate ...."
  • "Canalis, like many men accustomed to perorate, allowed to be too plainly seen."