speechify

verb

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.”

   “He never missed a chance of speechifying in public.”

   “The home minister, Admiral Suetsugu, speechified grandly of a Japanese eminent domain beyond the seas, of a “moral purification drive” in the home islands.”

   “Rodey McQueen speechified elegantly about the necessity for harmony.”

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.”