rhetoricate

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verb

To use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.

“, "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.”

OriginLatin rhetoricari →
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Meanings

verbrhetoricate (third-person singular simple present rhetoricates, present participle rhetoricating, simple past and past participle rhetoricated)

present singular third person rhetoricates · participle present rhetoricating · participle past rhetoricated · past rhetoricated

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.

    , "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.

Origin

  1. Latinrhetoricari
  2. Englishrhetoricate

From Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

hereticatortheatricore
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APA

rhetoricate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rhetoricate

MLA

“rhetoricate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rhetoricate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rhetoricate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rhetoricate.

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