English

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert South, 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.