explaterate

English

Verb

explaterate (third-person singular simple present explaterates, present participle explaterating, simple past and past participle explaterated)

1. (obsolete) To talk continuously without stop.
   • 1833, The New-England Magazine, volume 5, page 319:

     His honor said he thought there was no need to explaterate about the matter.

   • 1850, William Valentine, A Budget of Wit and Humour:

     I am here to explaterate about our family, and lecterize a leetle on human natur, and all that sort of thing.

   • 1890, Clara Augusta Jones, Patience Pettigrew's Perplexities:

     As we driv along quite a crowd of boys and dogs followed us to hear Seeze explaterate, and to see him perform.