Meanings
verboratorize (third-person singular simple present oratorizes, present participle oratorizing, simple past and past participle oratorized)
present singular third person oratorizes · participle present oratorizing · participle past oratorized · past oratorized
- derogatoryhumorousTo play the orator.
In this order they reached the magistrate's house; the chairmen trotting, the prisoners following, Mr. Pickwick oratorizing, and the crowd shouting.
1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
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