Word Meanings - SPEECHIFIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.

Related words: (words related to SPEECHIFIER)

• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• ORATORY
  A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the
• ORATORIO
  A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• ORATORIAL
  Oratorical. Swift. --Or`a*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
• DECLAIMER
  One who declaims; an haranguer.
• ORATORICAL
  Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay. -- Or`a*tor"ic*al*ly, adv.
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• ORATORIAN
  Oratorical. R. North.
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• ORATORIZE
  To play the orator. Dickens.
• ORATORIOUS
  Oratorical. Jer. Taylor. -- Or`a*to"ri*ous*ly, adv.
• SPEECHIFIER
  One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
• ORATOR
  An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs
• SPEECHING
  The act of making a speech.
• AMELIORATOR
  One who ameliorates.
• IMPLORATORY
  Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
• EDULCORATOR
  A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
• MORATORIUM
  A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
• MELIORATOR
  One who meliorates.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• MORATORY
  Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
• LABORATORY
  The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
• ELABORATOR
  One who, or that which, elaborates.
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• CORROBORATORY
  Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
• ELABORATORY
  Tending to elaborate.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• ARBORATOR
  One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn.