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speechify, v.|ˈspiːtʃɪfaɪ|
[f. speech n.1 + -ify.
Noted by Bartlett (1848) as ‘a rather low word, and seldom heard except among bar-room politicians’. In ordinary use, together with its derivatives, chiefly employed as a humorous form or with depreciatory suggestion.]
1. intr. To make or deliver a speech or speeches; to harangue or ‘hold forth’; to speak or talk at some length or with some degree of formality.
1723[implied in speechifying vbl. n.]. 1762Foote Orator i. Wks. 1799 I. 193 And have you speechified yet? Ibid. 194, I did speechify once at a vestry. 1806Naval Chron. XV. 19 Jack made..attempts to speechify. 1833Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 341 Lord Lansdowne began to speechify to the German and Frenchman. 1862Thackeray Philip vii, We were free to speechify,..and be as young as we liked.
2. trans. To address in a speech or speeches.
1862Daily Tel. 9 Sept., Who entertained the crazy egotist Wilkes,..and ‘ovated’ and speechified him?
Hence ˈspeechifying ppl. a.
1803J. Foster in Ryland Life (1846) I. 247 The man who has just conquered his speechifying antagonist. 1817M. Edgeworth Th. on Bores Wks. 1848 IX. 213 Of the common parliamentary bore there be two orders; the silent, and the speechifying. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 109 There was also..a Mrs. Harden, speechifying and civil, and a Miss Harden, her daughter, civiller still. |