PERORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perorate mean? 

• PERORATE (verb)
  The verb PERORATE has 2 senses:

1. conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

2. deliver an oration in grandiloquent style

  Familiarity information: PERORATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERORATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "perorate" is one way to...):

conclude (bring to a close)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

peroration ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deliver an oration in grandiloquent style

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "perorate" is one way to...):

declaim; recite (recite in elocution)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

peroration (a flowery and highly rhetorical oration)