7 September 2014

peroration

[per-uh-rey-shuh n]

noun

1. a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
2. Rhetoric. the concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.
Origin
late Middle English Latin
1400-1450; late Middle English < Latin perōrātiōn- (stem of perōrātiō) the closing of a speech. See perorate, -ion
Related forms
perorational, perorative, adjective
peroratorical [puh-rawr-uh-tawr-i-kuh l, -ror-uh-tor-], adjective
peroratorically, adverb
peroratory [puh-rawr-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, -ror-], noun
Can be confused
oration, peroration.
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Anagram

overrate pi
pirate over

Today’s aphorism

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

– Stephen King

On this day

7 September 1876 – birth of C.J. Dennis, Australian poet (Songs of a Sentimental Bloke). Died 22 June 1938.

7 September 1936 – birth of Charles Hardin Holley, otherwise known as Buddy Holly. 1950s rock star, famous for songs such as ‘Peggy Sue’ and ‘That’ll be the day’. Died in a plane crash on 3 February 1959 with other musicians, Richie Valens, J.P. ‘Big Bopper’ Richardson and the pilot, Roger Peterson. Their deaths were immortalised in the Don McLean song, ‘American Pie’, when he sang about the day the music died.

7 September 1978 – death of Keith Moon, British musician, drummer for ‘The Who’.