speechified

Verb

speechify (third-person singular simple present speechifies, present participle speechifying, simple past and past participle speechified)

1. (intransitive) To give a speech; to hold forth; (now especially) to pronounce pompously or at length.
   • Caleb was a powerful man and knew little of any fear except the fear of hurting others and the fear of having to speechify.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LVI, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI, page 238
2. (obsolete, possibly, transitive) To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech.
   • 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.1864, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy