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

A declaimer. [R.]

One who declaims; an haranguer.

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.…

A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

e, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates. -- To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]

To make an harangue; to declaim.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.

To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. All men inveighed against him; all m…

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.

gnity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other. I. Taylor.