DECLAIM
\dɪklˈe͡ɪm], \dɪklˈeɪm], \d_ɪ_k_l_ˈeɪ_m]\
Definitions of DECLAIM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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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.
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To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
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To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
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To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
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To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
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To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
By Noah Webster.
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To utter in rhetorical style; speak as an exercise in elocution.
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To harangue; to speak oratorically in public; to recite a selection as an exercise; as, the boy was asked to declaim.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make a set or rhetorical speech: to harangue.
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DE a god: to worship as a deity:-pr.p. deifying; pa.p. deified.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To deliver a set speech or oration rhetorically; to speak by rhetorical rule and for mere rhetorical effect.
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To speak rhetorically.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
