rhetoricate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.
Verb
editrhetoricate (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, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:, "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.