v. [f. ELOCUTION + -IZE.] intr. a. To make use of florid or eloquent language. b. To speak or read in public.
a. 1849. Poe, Wks. (1864), III. 250. The author proceeds … to elocutionize.
1883. Homiletic Monthly, Aug., 661. The two tasks [of a preacher] … writing and elocutionizing.
