intransitive verb. To deliver a formal recitation, especially as an exercise in rhetoric or elocution.

intransitive verb. To speak loudly and vehemently; inveigh.

intransitive verb. To utter or recite with rhetorical effect.

To make a formal speech or oration; harangue.

To speak or write for rhetorical effect; speak or write pompously or elaborately, without earnestness of purpose, sincerity, or sound argument; rant.

To repeat a select piece of prose or poetry in public, as an exercise in oratory or to exhibit skill in elocution.

To utter or deliver in public in a rhetorical or oratorical manner.

To speak as an exercise in elocution: as, he declaimed Mark Antony's speech.

3. To maintain or advocate oratorically.

To speak against; cry down; decry.

intransitive verb. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.

intransitive verb. To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

transitive verb. To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.

transitive verb. To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.

verb. To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.

verb. To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way.

verb. speak against in an impassioned manner

verb. recite in elocution

""There's a fierce gray bird with a bending beak," that the boys loved so dearly to "declaim;" and another poem by this last author, which we all liked to read, partly from a childish love of the tragic, and partly for its graphic description of an avalanche's movement: --"

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Ame  Boehme  Graeme  Mayme  Sejm  

arpeggios  chitter  clarionet  clef  hisevangelist  

blare  blare forth  blaze  blaze abroad  blazon  

declaimed  declaiming  declaims