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Definition of Speechify
1. Verb. Make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality. "Sam and Sue speechify"; "These ministers speechify on every occasion"
Definition of Speechify
1. v. i. To make a speech; to harangue.
Definition of Speechify
1. Verb. (intransitive) To give a speech; to hold forth, to pronounce at length. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Speechify
1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speechify
Literary usage of Speechify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Political Phrases and Allusions: With a Short Bibliography by Hugh Montgomery, Philip George Cambray (1906)
"... you may demonstrate, you may speechify . . . but until the rattle of the slugs
is heard on the roadside, the Prime Minister of England will not even ..."
2. The Universal review (1859)
"Ho first means to pass a week with Wellesley, during which, though he professes
his intention to avoid it, he means to be obliged to speechify the ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"speechify, to make a speech. ... to speechify.—Sketches ' u lio: (Public Dinner»).
SPEED, to kill. ..."
4. Lectures on the History of English Literature by William Marvel Nevin (1895)
"They should speechify in public. I rejoice this day to see so many women of that
sex coming out to our conventions. Student.—Why, you grow eloquent on the ..."
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