Perorate \Per"o*rate\, v. i. [See Peroration.]
To make a peroration; to harangue. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
perorate
v 1: conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation
2: deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
WordNet (r) 2.0
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "perorate":
abort, cease, chatter, close, conclude, debate, declaim, demagogue,
determine, drag out, draw out, elocute, end, extend, fill out,
finish, finish up, harangue, hold forth, mouth, never finish,
orate, out-herod Herod, pad, protract, rabble-rouse, rant, rave,
read, recite, resolve, rodomontade, run out, scrap, scratch,
soapbox, speak at length, spiel, spin out, spout, stop,
stretch out, string out, terminate, tub-thump, wind up
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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