elocute, v.
(ˈɛləkjuːt)
[Playful back-formation f. elocution.]
To practise elocution; to declaim in an elocutionary manner.
| 1884 ‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn 315 They didn't yellocute long till the audience got up. 1896 Idler Mar. 183/1 ‘Elocute’ as he might, his reputation was always overshadowed by that of a ‘past’ boy. 1908 Dialect Notes III. iv. 308 Elocute, v.i., to recite in elocutionary style. 1920 S. Lewis Main Street x. 121 That was fine. I don't know but what you can elocute just as good as Ella. Ibid. iv. 47 Ella is our shark at elocuting. 1963 Times 14 May 15/4 Dorothy Reynolds's Oenone, flutingly elocuted. |