- to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech:Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- to inveigh (usually followed by against): He declaimed against the high rents in slums.
- to speak or write for oratorical effect, as without sincerity or sound argument.
- to utter aloud in an oratorical manner: to declaim a speech.
- to make (a speech, statement, etc) loudly and in a rhetorical manner
- to speak lines from (a play, poem, etc) with studied eloquence; recite
- to protest (against) loudly and publicly
