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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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