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Definition of Speechified
1. speechify [v] - See also: speechify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speechified
Literary usage of Speechified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"cold collation and breakfast, to Cloth Hall and speechified : afterwards wrote
letters ; and they escorted me a mile or more on horseback on the road to ..."
2. The Last Days of the Emperor Napoleon, by Francesco Antommarchi (1825)
"speechified, and struck all the emigrants with " terror. But the collection must
contain '• some of his letters : look, after the affair of " Venice. ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... and speechified before a domestic audience, including even the housekeeper,
who was once pressed into it that she might swell the notes of applause; ..."
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