"speechify" meaning in All languages combined

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "speechifying"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "speech",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "speech + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From speech + -ify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speechifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speechifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speechified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speechified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "speechify (third-person singular simple present speechifies, present participle speechifying, simple past and past participle speechified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bespeech"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ify",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1351",
          "text": "He never missed a chance of speechifying in public.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines, Macmillan",
          "text": "The home minister, Admiral Suetsugu, speechified grandly of a Japanese eminent domain beyond the seas, of a “moral purification drive” in the home islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, John Nichols, The Magic Journey: A Novel, Holt Paperbacks, page 20",
          "text": "Rodey McQueen speechified elegantly about the necessity for harmony.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give a speech; to hold forth; (now especially) to pronounce pompously or at length."
      ],
      "id": "en-speechify-en-verb-F5MUt2Z1",
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "hold forth",
          "hold forth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To give a speech; to hold forth; (now especially) to pronounce pompously or at length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy",
          "text": "They take their little enjoyments on little means and with little things and don't let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech."
      ],
      "id": "en-speechify-en-verb-I6oxp9OP",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, possibly obsolete) To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "possibly",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspiːt͡ʃɪfaɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "speechify"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ify",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "speechifying"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "speech",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "speech + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From speech + -ify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speechifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speechifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speechified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speechified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bespeech"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1351",
          "text": "He never missed a chance of speechifying in public.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, James Brady, Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines, Macmillan",
          "text": "The home minister, Admiral Suetsugu, speechified grandly of a Japanese eminent domain beyond the seas, of a “moral purification drive” in the home islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, John Nichols, The Magic Journey: A Novel, Holt Paperbacks, page 20",
          "text": "Rodey McQueen speechified elegantly about the necessity for harmony.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give a speech; to hold forth; (now especially) to pronounce pompously or at length."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "hold forth",
          "hold forth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To give a speech; to hold forth; (now especially) to pronounce pompously or at length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy",
          "text": "They take their little enjoyments on little means and with little things and don't let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, possibly obsolete) To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "possibly",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspiːt͡ʃɪfaɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "speechify"
}