Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To play the orator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To play the orator.

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  • verb obsolete, intransitive To play the orator.

Etymologies

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Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.

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  • (verb) - To play the actor. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850

    April 23, 2018