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orate
verb
he strode up and down the aisle as he orated:
declaim, make a speech, hold forth, speak, discourse, pontificate, preach, sermonize, sound off, spout off;
informal spiel, speechify, mouth off;
rare perorate.
orate Oxford Dictionary of English