Peroration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=o=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Peroration, n. [L. peroratio, fr. perorate, peroratum, to speak from beginning to end; per + orate to speak. See Per-, and Oration.].

 The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Peroration, n. the concluding part of a speech, forcefully summing up what has been said.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Peroration

n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

THESAURUS

Peroration

PS, Parthian shot, Z, addendum, address, after-dinner speech, afterthought, allocution, apodosis, appendix, back matter, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, chalk talk, chorus, coda, codicil, colophon, conclusion, consequence, consummation, continuance, continuation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, debate, decease, declamation, denouement, destination, destiny, diatribe, doom, double take, dying words, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eulogy, exhortation, expiration, fate, filibuster, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, follow-through, follow-up, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, goal, harangue, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, izzard, jeremiad, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, omega, oration, parting shot, payoff, pep talk, period, philippic, pitch, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, quietus, reading, recital, recitation, refrain, resolution, resting place, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, second thought, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, stoppage, stopping place, subscript, suffix, supplement, swan song, tag, talk, talkathon, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, windup

ROGET THESAURUS

Peroration

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

Sequel

N sequel, suffix, successor, tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear, retinue, suite, appendix, postscript, epilogue, peroration, codicil, continuation, sequela, appendage, tail piece, heelpiece, tag, more last words, colophon, aftercome, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterpiece, aftercourse, afterthought, aftergame, arriere pensee, second thoughts, outgrowth.

End

N end, close, termination, desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega, extreme, extremity, gable end, butt end, fag-end, tip, nib, point, tail, verge, tag, peroration, bonne bouche, bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard, consummation, denouement, finish, fate, doom, doomsday, crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain, goal, destination, limit, determination, expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination, death, end of all things, finality, eschatology, break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point, coup de grace, deathblow, knock-out-blow, sockdolager, ending, final, terminal, definitive, crowning, last, ultimate, hindermost, rear, caudal, vergent, conterminate, conterminous, conterminable, ended, at an end, settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest, conclusive, penultimate, last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced, fresh, finally, in fine, at the last, once for all, as high as Heaven and as deep as hell, deficit omne quod nascitur, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, finem respice, ultimus Romanorum.