declaim

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Declaim, de-klām′, v.i. to make a set or rhetorical speech: to harangue: to recite in public.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

So they who neither thought nor planned Hold for secure some transient good, And having built upon the sand, Declaim against the wind and flood.

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.

Declaim on this subject to your boys, and order all their exercises to be publickly submitted to your inspection regularly every evening.

From The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions by Anonymous

Then he must Declaim for them: In that, he could not trust His memory.

From A Child-World by Riley, James Whitcomb

Declaim as you will about self-sacrifice; that is all pretty enough; but we beg of you, do not at the same time forget to be honest.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace