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Definition of Orate
1. Verb. Talk pompously.
Definition of Orate
1. Verb. To speak formally; to give a speech. ¹
2. Verb. To speak passionately; to preach for or against something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orate
1. to speak formally [v ORATED, ORATING, ORATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orate
Literary usage of Orate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I am not, he said, going to orate. You did not come here, I guess, to hear me pay
... Men are apt ... to orate on any topic that chances to be uppermost. ..."
2. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"Spikelets 4—6, orate, aggregated closely, sessile and bracteate; ... plano-convex,
very diverging in maturity, about twice as long as the short, orate, ..."
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