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perorate /PUR-uh-rayt/ , intransitive verb:

1. To conclude or sum up a long discourse.

2. To speak or expound at length; to declaim.

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Quotes:

These people don't talk, they perorate, pontificate, bombast.

-- Jean Charbonneau, "Biographer's quest becomes self-searching journey", Denver Post, January 28, 2001

Our mother favored a staccato, stand-up style; if our father could perorate, she could condense.

-- Annie Dillard, "The Leg In The Christmas Stocking: What We Learned From Jokes", New York Times, December 7, 1986

You may perorate endlessly.

-- Richard Elman, "A Rap on Race", New York Times, June 27, 1971

Origin:

Perorate comes from Latin perorare "to speak at length or to the end," from per-, "through, throughout," + orare, "to speak.