ōˈrāt, ȯˈr-, ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷, usu -ād.+V verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: back-formation from oration (I)
intransitive verb
1. : to deliver an oration
orate in the sonorous periods of a rhetoric long forgotten — Patrick Balfour
2. : to talk in a declamatory, grandiloquent, or impassioned manner : harangue
love to hear him orate with waving hands about the racial sins of his native land — Ben Burns
go around orating about pure Southern womanhood — James Street
transitive verb
: to talk to in a declamatory, grandiloquent, or impassioned manner : harangue
orated the Italian people into that tragic aggression — Herbert Hoover