verbal intercourse, prolation†, oral communication, word of mouth,
parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue,
sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c
589; allocution &c 586; conversation &c 588; salutatory : screed:
valedictory [U.S.].
oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation;
grandiloquence, multiloquence†; burst of eloquence; facundity†; flow of
words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum [Lat.];
power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker &c v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece,
Hermes; orator, oratrix†, oratress†; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician;
stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer†, improvisatore†.
V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter
forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out
have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of
one's tongue.
break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's
voice, raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk,
outspeak†; put in a word or two, hold forth; make a speech, deliver a
speech &c n.; speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite,
lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say
one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage;
expatiate &c (speak at length) 573; speak one's mind, go on the stump,
take the stump [U.S.].
soliloquize &c 589; tell &c (inform) 527; speak to &c 586; talk
together &c 588.
be eloquent &c adj.; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of
the gab &c n.. pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips,
fall from the mouth.
Adj. speaking &c; spoken &c v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written,
unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical;
declamatory; grandiloquent &c 577; talkative &c 584; Ciceronian,
nuncupative, Tullian.
Adv. orally &c adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
Phr. quoth he, said he &c; action is eloquence [Coriolanus]; pour the
full tide of eloquence along [Pope]; she speaks poignards and every
word stabs [Much Ado About Nothing]; speech is but broken light upon
the depth of the unspoken [G.
Eliot]; to try thy eloquence now 'tis time [Antony and Cleopatra].