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A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.

ation. In comfort of her mother's fears. Shak. Cheer thy spirit with this comfort. Shak. Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. Longfellow.

Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv.

sing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

e correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

y or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation.…

Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak.

The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.

The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictatio.

, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude. Holland. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.…

The art and manner of speaking and conversing. Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. Shak.

Speaking in different ways. [R.]

A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since…

India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon.

To mumble in speaking. [Obs.]

A soft manner of speaking.