English Explanatory Dictionary

perorate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
  2. To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech.

Word forms

perorate perorates perorating perorated

Etymology

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

Related words

peroration ramble
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