1. To make a long, elaborate speech, often with more grandeur than the occasion warrants.
2. To deliver a speech's concluding section, summing up or making a final persuasive appeal.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- perorate on a subject
- begin to perorate
On the page
While the guests waited for dinner, their host perorated on the virtues of punctuality.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- perorate
- Past tense
- perorated
- Past participle
- perorated
- Present participle
- perorating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- perorate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are perorating
- Present perfect
- have/has perorated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been perorating
- Past
- perorated
- Past continuous
- was/were perorating
- Past perfect
- had perorated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been perorating
- Future
- will perorate
- Future continuous
- will be perorating
- Future perfect
- will have perorated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been perorating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated prose. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: perorate; perorates; perorated; perorated; perorating Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: MW distinguishes grandiloquent length from making a peroration; rhetorical conclusion retained separately. Writing functions: precise action, characterization. Third-person singular: perorates.
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