Word Meanings - PERORATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke. (more info) speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and

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• SUMMATION
  The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• SUMMARIZE
  To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• SUMMONS
  A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like. (more info)
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• CONCLUDINGLY
  Conclusively. Digby.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• SUMMIST
  One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary. Sir E. Dering.
• CONCLUDENT
  Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive. Arguments highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• CONCLUDER
  One who concludes.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• SUMMITLESS
  Having no summit.
• SUMMARILY
  In a summary manner.
• ARGUMENTABLE
  Admitting of argument. Chalmers.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• HYDROCHLORATE
  See HYDROCHLORIDE
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• BICORPORATE
  Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• PERORATE
  To make a peroration; to harangue.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• PIGNORATION
  The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill. (more info) pignerate to pledge, fr. pignus, gen. -ous and -eris, a pledge, a 1. The act of pledging or pawning.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.