Perorate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Perorate \Per"o*rate\, v. i. [See {Peroration}.]
     To make a peroration; to harangue. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  perorate
       v 1: conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation
       2: deliver an oration in grandiloquent style

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "perorate":
     abort, cease, chatter, close, conclude, debate, declaim, demagogue,
     determine, drag out, draw out, elocute, end, extend, fill out,
     finish, finish up, harangue, hold forth, mouth, never finish,
     orate, out-herod Herod, pad, protract, rabble-rouse, rant, rave,
     read, recite, resolve, rodomontade, run out, scrap, scratch,
     soapbox, speak at length, spiel, spin out, spout, stop,
     stretch out, string out, terminate, tub-thump, wind up