orate

The surest way to get yanked off the stage — any stage — is to clear one’s throat and begin to orate.

Do you remember how you always used to let me orate to you when I had anything on hand for the rhetoricals?

But the captain, facing them, his arms about the delighted Bos'n, positively declined to orate.

“Orate pro anima,” or “of your charite pray for the soul of ——” were usual inscriptions.

They'll orate over him, and they'll get frightfully cross for a fortnight, and then they'll do nothing.

Do not try to be somebody else; be your own self and talk, never "orate" until you can't help it.