Speech

Definition of Speech

n.	1.	The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. - Holder.
	2.	he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation. O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage. - Chaucer. The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told. - Milton.
	3.	A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. People of a strange speech and of an hard language. - Ezek. iii. 6.
	4.	Talk; mention; common saying. The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey. - Shak.
	5.	formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. - Swift.
	6.	ny declaration of thoughts. I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied. - Milton.
v. i. & t.	1.	To make a speech; to harangue.

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