- Make formal speech - Speak rhetorically - 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; as, the
students declaim twice a week. - To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously,
noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite
arguments in debate; to rant. - To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set
manner. - To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
- Speak clearly - To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to
utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent
as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. - To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a
decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death. - To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to
recite; as, to pronounce an oration. - To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to
be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud. - To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to
pronounce faultlessly. - To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak
with confidence.