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speechify"talk in a pompous, pontifical way," 1723, from speech + -ify. Related: Speechifying; speechification.
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speechify(v) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality
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speechify
(intransitive) To give a speech; to hold forth, to pronounce at length.
* Eliot Middlemarch|56
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