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Word Meanings - SPEECHIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a speech; to harangue.

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  • 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.
  • HARANGUE
    A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
  • SPEECHIFY
    To make a speech; to harangue.
  • SPEECHIFICATION
    The act of speechifying.
  • HARANGUEFUL
    Full of harangue.
  • SPEECHMAKER
    One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
  • 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
  • HARANGUER
    One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.
  • SPEECHIFIER
    One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
  • SPEECHING
    The act of making a speech.
  • 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.
  • INTERSPEECH
    A speech interposed between others. Blount.
  • FORESPEECH
    A preface. Sherwood.
  • BY-SPEECH
    An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.
  • MISSPEECH
    Wrong speech.

 

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