¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perorated
1. perorate [v] - See also: perorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perorated
Literary usage of Perorated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850)
"Kings reigned, what they were pleased to call reigning ; lawyers pleaded, bishops
preached, and honourable members perorated ; and to crown the whole, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Luckily for the Directory, Bernadotte had often perorated on the insufficient
measure of support which he had received from the government, ..."
3. The Road by Jack London (1907)
""When I get back to Chicago," he perorated, "I'm going to get a job and stick to
it till hell freezes over. Then I'll go tramping again. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"And so, Lamoignon too having perorated not amiss, and wound up with that Promise
of States-General, —the Sphere-music of Par- lementary eloquence begins. ..."
Other Resources:
