单词 | perorate |
释义 | peroratev. 1. a. intransitive. To speak or declaim at length, to deliver an oration.Now often with the connotation of a long-winded or pompous manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] deliverc1400 repeat1579 speak1583 perore1594 perorate1603 oratorize1620 concionatea1641 speech1684 speechify1723 oration1764 orate1780 platform1859 elocutionize1883 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xxii. 493 Now hauing perorated (as he thinkes) sufficiently, he beginnes to growe to a conclusion. 1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent ii. 125 They should demand of the Pope, some man of worth to perorate against the accused. 1827 T. Carlyle Richter in Edinb. Rev. June 179 Doctor Gabler and Doctor Spatzier were perorating..over the grave. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma x. 318 They will let the intelligent Socinian perorate for ever about the Atonement if he likes. 1918 K. Burke Let. 21 Mar. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 65 For two days I went about alone..ready to perorate to street-car conductors or house dogs. 1992 Amer. Scholar Autumn 580/1 Freedom of higher education does not mean the right of the first comer to perorate as he pleases. b. transitive. To say, to declaim; to utter or relate in a declamatory way. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [verb (transitive)] > declaim spout1542 declaim1577 perorate1681 elocute1963 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 20 Thus did he perorat his fliting. 1800 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Sketch Life & Lit. Career 30 I undertook the part of Anselmo, and perorated it with all the fire of my ardent imagination. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets ii. 28 A foolish stump-orator, perorating..mere benevolences. 1916 J. B. Cabell Certain Hour 225 ‘Ai! ai!’ young Vanderhoffen perorated; ‘the situation is complete. I have not the least desire to be Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg’. 2002 Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.) (Nexis) 3 July 4/2 Rather than creating a federal case to perorate my dissent, I would quietly recite only that ours is ‘one nation, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all’. 2. a. intransitive. To sum up or conclude a speech, oration, or argument, esp. in a rousing manner; to deliver the peroration of a speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > deliver concluding part collect1594 perorate1768 resume1770 1768 ‘C. Mythogelastick’ New Fable of Bees i, in Makarony Fables 44 Whilst he was speaking all was quiet, But perorating in that fashion, They rose up like a Polish Diet, And drew their sabres in a passion. 1818 J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 336 The following innocent conclusion with which Visconti perorates. 1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxiv, in Men & Women II. 47 How we shall prologuise, how we shall perorate. 1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston (1927) 332 Returning to his opening theme, he perorated briefly. 1994 Times (Nexis) 22 Nov. The old lion..reached his final paragraph and, for the first time in his life, failed to perorate. b. transitive. To sum up or conclude (a speech or argument). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > conclude epilogize1623 perorate1852 1852 H. Melville Pierre xvii. i. 334 A third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold and startling announcement—‘This writer is unquestionably a highly respectable youth.’ 1954 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 41 204 John P. Newman..perorated his inaugural sermon with the assertion [etc.]. 1993 Guardian (Nexis) 5 June 53 He perorated a monologue by sweeping a glass of claret into the lap of the lady next to him. Derivatives ˈperorating n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [adjective] > using rhetoric rhetoricala1645 declaiming1701 perorating1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. x. 70 It occurred to the mind of Anacharsis Clootz that while so much was embodying itself into Club or Committee, and perorating [was] applauded, there yet remained a greater and greatest. 1849 Times 29 Jan. 4/5 He is just the same perorating being as when standing at the Speaker's table. 1985 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 23 185 The somewhat gratuitous introduction of..the suddenly urgent need for a communalising plural voice into his perorating remarks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1603 |
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