As an aid to public speaking I was taught to "elocute," and I remember in every mournful detail the occasion on which I gave my first recitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Pioneer] Reference

I continue to elocute where I should be apologizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

At which time, the thing you had to do was dress yourself up, and stand in the middle of the stage, and elocute about various things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Jean Cole Hatcher, June 13, 1980. Interview H-0165. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

During the debate against Hillary Rodham Clinton, even though he did come across and he did elocute that he was denouncing what the man had said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference

You may teach him to fence, and to dance, and to elocute till he is black in the face; you will never teach him to play "Othello" unless he is an actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

"But if he would rather hear Kate elocute about it than to lie and listen to the real thing, he's nothing more or less than a nature pirate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lookout Man] Reference

I don’t know but what you can elocute just as good as Ella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

I'm all right now, and if you'll just elocute that thing, while I array myself in purple and fine linen, I'm sure it will all come back to me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Summer Days] Reference

I don't know but what you can elocute just as good as Ella Stowbody, "she banged the book and suggested that they were not too late for the nine o'clock show at the movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

Well, I should rise to elocute!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod Stories] Reference

They have time to elocute to the court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuestra Voice] Reference

112 either, 112 el, 189 eldorado, 101 electrocute, 186, 191 electrolier, 186, 195 elevata, 421 elevated, 189, 411, 421 elevated railway, 189 elevateur, 401 elevator, 15, 61, 114, 159, 171, 421 elevator-boy, 114 élite, 249 elk, 345, 352 ellum, 318 elocute, 185 embalming surgeon, 114 emerald, 132 emfasis, 246 emote, 185 emperor, 227 emperour, 228 employd, 245 employé, 144, 200, 250, 233 employee, 251, 233 employment-bureau, 53 emporiums, 252 enceinte, 150 enclose, 223, 237 enclosure, 225 encumbrance, 237 encyclopædia, 223 encyclopedia, 223 endeavor, 221 endeavour, 221, 227 endive, 119 endorse, 92, 223, 237 endorsement, 225 end-seat-hog, 190 enejau, 404 engine-driver, 115 engineer, v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference