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.]
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory. 2 The act of speaking, especially at excessive length. vb. (present participle of speechify English)
Usage examples of "speechifying".
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.
And so, during the 10th, while Joan was slaving away at her plans and issuing order after order with tireless industry, the old-time consultations and arguings and speechifyings were going on among certain of the generals.