Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"talk in a pompous, pontifical way," 1723, from speech + -ify. Related: Speechifying; speechification.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To give a speech; to hold forth, to pronounce at length. 2 (context transitive English) To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech.
WordNet
v. make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality; "These ministers speechify on every occasion"
[also: speechified]
Usage examples of "speechify".
I laugh, I sing, I speechify, I tell tales to make one die of laughter.
While bands played and speakers speechified and half the planet looked upward to catch a glimpse of the drive flame, the Navatar lit the engines and the great starship broke Lunar orbit under full thrust.
To Jeremiah, his sermon was like the ones of his good preacher back there in the settlement, except he speechified in a squeaky voice.
Then everybody goes to lunch -- swells and selectors, Germans and Paddies, natives and immigrants, a good many of them, too, and there was eating and drinking and speechifying till all was blue.
Mutimer bears, and will continue to bear, among certain sections of writing and speechifying vermin?
Loftus for all his prissy speechifying about law and order was not a fool, nor was Allen.
Even the treaties continually going on at the bazaar for the buying and selling of the merest trifles are carried on by speechifying rather than by mere colloquies, and the eternal uncertainty as to the market value of things in constant sale gives room enough for discussion.
Up to this time I had been the planner of the enterprise, but now that the moment had come when all would depend upon able and earnest speechifying, I felt at once the immense superiority of my gallant friend, and gladly left to him the whole conduct of this discussion.
And that was that, though the speechifying and drinking of toasts would go on half the night.
Whitlow to go on functioning, even speechifying, in the chill oxygen dearth was by no means so obvious.
And this brought me to the realization that there is something evil and twisted about the campaign process: the traveling, the speechifying, the television spots.
Rede, the resident Commissioner, arrives, and endeavours to pacify the people by speechifying, but it will not do.
Then she went into her usual speechifying on the dangers of her son, Jeremiah falling into the temptation of sin and its equal danger of the hell fires of the god of the nether world, the Moloch.
Then everybody goes to lunch -- swells and selectors, Germans and Paddies, natives and immigrants, a good many of them, too, and there was eating and drinking and speechifying till all was blue.
Jess was thrilled to think that he had just seen this much-sought-after man at home in his galluses while the press, eyes and voice to the people, must content themselves with a mere formal glimpse, a brief bloviation, Harding’s favorite noun to describe speechifying, and a mystery.