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Speechify   /spˈitʃəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Speechify

verb
(past & past part. speechified; pres. part. speechifying)
1.
Make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality.





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"Speechify" Quotes from Famous Books



... this gentleman. There, I am received by an Army Officer and a certain Ahmed Bey. And after the coffee and the formalities of civility are over, I am asked to accompany them on a tour to the principal cities of upper Syria—to Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo. The young Army Officer is to speechify in Turkish, I, in Arabic, and Ahmed Bey, who is as oleaginous as a Turk could be, will take up, I think, the collection. Seeing in this a chance to spread the Idea among our people, I accept, and in a fortnight we shall be in ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... to that unwritten and unhonoured law which provides that an after-dinner speaker is entitled to five minutes in which to apologise for his incompetency in that capacity, and fifty-five minutes in which to speechify; and I have often wished that speechmakers one and all would recollect that a few words well-chosen and to the point, and a timely termination, are far more acceptable to the listener than all their maundering oratorical tours "from China to Peru," from the Mansion House ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss


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