(v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
(v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
(v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
(v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Click to view The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes a surprise appearance on Beyoncé's latest album , released on iTunes this morning, declaiming: "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
(2) He’s not just a straight-talker, he’s a man who reliably says the things politicians dream their opponents will be caught muttering within range of forgotten radio-mics – except he declaims them on a podium in front of thousands.
(3) The charge sheet was stunning: "He has corrupted his hands and sullied his government with bribes," declaimed Burke in his opening speech to the hearing.
(4) Favourite lines are a very personal affair, but members of my family are liable to declaim "I must have a charcoal biscuit, which is good for me", "Nothing grows in our garden, only washing", "Here's your arsenic, dear," or "Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"
(5) 1976’s awesome Station to Station found him in Wagnerian mode, imperiously gazing over mountains and oceans, declaiming “the European canon is here” while “driving like a demon” between the stations (sephiroth) of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, “from Kether to Malkuth”.
(6) They get drunk, they go punting on the canals, they recite passages from Shakespeare, they declaim lines from Chaucer to dismayed cows, who wonder where all of this is leading.
(7) His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
(8) When I Google the phrase I get Burberry's website, so I try 'British values' and the first entry is Tony Blair declaiming the 'core British values of fair play, creativity, tolerance and an outward-looking approach to the world'.
(9) Thomas stretches out his sentences into great, rolling, relentless waves, or crushes words together into compound coinages as the voices whisper and declaim: the play is bawdy, tragic, lyrical, sly, odd, familiar, broad and deep by turns.
(10) An MA graduate who can speak fluent English but who prefers to declaim in Gujarati or Hindi as he did in London last night, Mr Modi is technically savvy, and usually answers his own email.
(11) "It was the night before New Year's … " he declaims over an icy RZA production.
(12) Arena's main soliloquy is breathtaking: wearing a face-painted mask of kaleidoscopic colours and in drag (a red dress), his character declaims a kind of manifesto: "I wish to live in the drama of schism, of division … Live for a different idea, cultivate love for another possibility unforeseen, full of attraction and danger, necessary, inevitable, fatal... " Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts.
(13) So I wasn't surprised to read in Simon Callow's Charles Dickens and The Great Theatre of The World , that the author used to declaim passages aloud to his family after he'd written them.
(14) They will be playing to different galleries, declaiming their positions to their peers in the chamber, but also to domestic audiences.
(15) Thus declaimed Apple marketing boss "Big" Phil Schiller as he provided a rare sneak peak of a forthcoming Apple product: the new Mac Pro.
(16) On the higher end of the cultural scale, V declaims Shakespeare, and in honour of Guy Fawkes's subversion in the age of James I, reels off lots of Macbeth.
(17) • Readers who have found themselves persuaded this week by the measured insights of Ukip donor Demetri Marchessini, who purchased an ad in the Daily Telegraph to declaim on the subject of homosexuality ("there is no such word as 'homophobic', it cannot be found in any dictionary") are no doubt anxious to hear more from the Greek businessman and self-styled polemicist.
(18) I think, retrospectively, all this should have been declaimed in French.
(19) Oh you terrorists, you will be defeated, defeated, defeated!” the presenter declaimed.
(20) The introduction still packs an emotional punch as it declaims: “Those of us who lived those unique and unforgettable days, days destined to light up the history of the world, will never lose the memory of them.” Behind the counter, Carmen is the current custodian of those memories.
Perorate
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a peroration; to harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
(2) Fifty-six out of 60 schizophrenic patients completed a double-blind study of two long-acting neuroleptics, penfluridol (peroral) and flupenthixol decanoate (parenteral).
(3) In addition, the first patient was given a peroral prophylaxis with dantrolene; in subsequent cases this route of administration was abandoned.
(4) The subjects were studied after peroral intake of digoxin at 2 dose levels and after withdrawal of digoxin.
(5) Patients were controlled regularly both before and during peroral treatment with terbutaline.
(6) Forty-two consecutive patients undergoing uvolopalatopharyngoplasty were subjected to peroral examination of the oropharynx combined with nasendoscopic examination of the velopharyngeal valve.
(7) Three basic techniques (and one modified technique) were developed, allowing successful excision of subepiglottic cysts in 10 horses (5 Standardbreds, 4 Thoroughbreds, and 1 Quarter Horse; mean age, 3.5 years) via peroral approach.
(8) These findings represent the first clearly prenatal brain damages described for experimental peroral lead exposure.
(9) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
(10) Mice aged 1 week or less, however, died after intracerebral, intraperitoneal, subcutaneous and intranasal inoculation, while some of them survived after peroral inoculation.
(11) Compared with 1977 peroral anticoagulation, low-dose heparin and mechanical methods had decreased significantly, low-dose heparin in combination with dihydroergotamine increased significantly and dextran showed an unchanged use.
(12) This is again interpreted to indicate that different mechanisms control the peroral infection of Cx.
(13) The major route of excretion after peroral doses was in urine, making this mode of excretion consistent for both routes of administration evaluated in this study and including the doses given in previous iv work.
(14) We conclude that intravenous lidocaine or peroral mexiletine may be an effective analgesic treatment in patients with Dercum's disease.
(15) The nature of the gastrointestinal absorptive defect for triglyceride in three subjects with abetalipoproteinemia has been investigated by studying peroral biopsies of the gastrointestinal mucosa.
(16) These findings were taken to indicate that a significant fraction of ethanol administered perorally was metabolized during absorption before reaching the systemic circulation and that this FPM of ethanol became clearer in smaller ethanol doses.
(17) In six patients, the excretion of titratable acid was determined after peroral loading with ammonium chloride.
(18) It has been determined that submucous cleft palate can occur even when a peroral examination shows an intact uvula.
(19) When peroral ACV was started 48 h after UVR, delayed lesions developed but were less severe (P = .01-.05).
(20) Retroperitoneal group demonstrated significant decrease in blood (630 vs 1300 ml) and crystalloids (1700 vs 3250 ml) requirement, shorter nasogastric intubation time (1.6 vs 4.4 d) and quicker peroral intake.