rhetoricate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.
Verb[edit]
rhetoricate (third-person singular simple present rhetoricates, present participle rhetoricating, simple past and past participle rhetoricated)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:, "A Discourse Against Long and Extempore Prayers"
- A person ready to sink under his Wants, has neither time, nor heart, to Rhetoricate, or make Flourishes.