rhetorize

i. & t. [Eng. rhetor; -ize.] A. In trans.: To play the orator; to declaim. B. Trans.: To represent by a figure of oratory; to introduce by a rhetorical device. "A certain rhetorized woman whom he calls mother." Milton : Apology for Smectymnuus. *rhět-ör-ý, s . [RHETOR.] A rhetorician. "The same profe ion with the rhetories at Rome." Hacket : Life of Williams , i. 72.