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English
Etymology
From Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.
Verb
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, volume (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.