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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
orate
 \\ȯ-ˈrāt, ˈȯr-ˌāt\\ intransitive verb 
(orat·ed ; orat·ing)
 ETYMOLOGY  back-formation from oration
 DATE  1669
: to speak in an elevated and often pompous manner
English Etymology
orate
  c.1600, "to pray, to plead," from L. oratus, pp. of orare "pray, plead, speak before a court or assembly" (see orator). The meaning "make a formal speech" emerged c.1860 in Amer.Eng. as a back-formation of oration.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
orate
\ōˈrāt, ȯˈr-, ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷, usu -ād.+V\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: back-formation from oration (I) 
intransitive verb
1. : to deliver an oration
 orate in the sonorous periods of a rhetoric long forgotten — Patrick Balfour >
2. : to talk in a declamatory, grandiloquent, or impassioned manner : 
harangue
 < love to hear him orate with waving hands about the racial sins of his native land — Ben Burns >
 < go around orating about pure Southern womanhood — James Street >
transitive verb
: to talk to in a declamatory, grandiloquent, or impassioned manner : 
harangue
 orated the Italian people into that tragic aggression — Herbert Hoover >

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