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English Dictionary: speechifying by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Speechify \Speech"i*fy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Speechified}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Speechifying}.] [Speech + -fy.]
      To make a speech; to harangue. [Used derisively or
      humorously.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Speechifying \Speech"i*fy`ing\, n.
      The act of making a speech or speeches. [Used derisively or
      humorously.]
  
               The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the
               annual season for the buckhounds.            --M. Arnold.
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