2. To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to
rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.
Bancroft.
Declaim
(De*claim") v. t.
1. To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
2. To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] "Declaims his cause." South.
Declaimant
(De*claim"ant) n. A declaimer. [R.]
Declaimer
(De*claim"er) n. One who declaims; an haranguer.
Declamation
(Dec`la*ma"tion) n. [L. declamatio, from declamare: cf. F. déclamation. See Declaim.]
1. 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.
Macaulay. 2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
Declamator
(Dec"la*ma`tor) n. [L.] A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.
Declamatory
(De*clam"a*to*ry) a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire.]
1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as,
a declamatory way or style.
Declarable
(De*clar"a*ble) a. Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.
Declarant
(De*clar"ant) n. [Cf. F. déclarant, p. pr. of déclarer.] (Law) One who declares. Abbott.
Declaration
(Dec`la*ra"tion) n. [F. déclaration, fr. L. declaratio, fr. declarare. See Declare.]
1. The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side
taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
2. That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
Declarations of mercy and love . . . in the Gospel.
Tillotson. 3. The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence
In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the
nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
Buckle.
