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elocute

/ ˈɛəˌː /

verb

  1. facetious.
    intr to speak as if practising elocution; declaim
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of elocute1

C19: back formation from elocution
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When he does speak, Owen as often as not, elocutes in a stagey manner, with timbres of cartoon voices and those famous actors he loves accenting his words.

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Movie teenagers are typically depicted as either awkward, loner virgins or erudite pontificators who elocute with the unearned-for-their-age wit of Noel Coward.

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A bigger stage causes everyone to elocute a bit more: Niamh Cusack as the sympathetic teacher is more goody-goody than she was before.

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You will think that you would rather elocute ‘The High Tide’ than even to have written it.”

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I’m all right now, and if you’ll just elocute that thing, while I array myself in purple and fine linen, I’m sure it will all come back to me.”

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