Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play the orator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To play the orator.
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- verb obsolete, intransitive To play the
orator .
Etymologies
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Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.
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A person ready to sink under his wants, has neither time nor heart to rhetoricate or make flourishes.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
Gammerstang commented on the word rhetoricate
(verb) - To play the actor. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018