v. 25B6; verb
a preacher declaiming from the pulpit : MAKE A SPEECH, give an address, give a lecture, deliver a sermon; speak, hold forth, orate, preach, lecture, sermonize, moralize; informal sound off, spout, speechify, preachify.
they loved to hear him declaim poetry : RECITE, read aloud, read out loud, read out; deliver; informal spout.
he declaimed against the evils of society : SPEAK OUT, rail, inveigh, fulminate, rage, thunder; rant, expostulate; condemn, criticize, attack, decry, disparage.