To make a speech; to harangue.--Webster. A rather low word, and seldom heard except among bar-room politicians. It is not peculiar to America, though not in any English dictionary.
The treaties continually going on in the bazaar for buying and selling are carried on by speechifying, rather than by mere colloquies.--Eöthen.
We'll forth in posse comitatus,
And take the Fox, ere he escape us;
Without a moment's pause he dies;--
We'll hang him ere he speechifies!--Reynard the Fox, p. 143.
The Dyaks of Borneo are very fond of speechifying.--Keppel's Borneo.