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Address :: Address (v. i.) To direct speech.

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Idiotical :: Idiotical (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action..

Domine :: Domine (n.) A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman..

Phonation :: Phonation (n.) The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

Logography :: Logography (n.) A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words..

Flippant :: Flippant (a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative..

Articulated :: Articulated (a.) Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced..

Report :: Report (v. i.) To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication..

Logaoedic :: Logaoedic (a.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Bathos :: Bathos (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax..

Interpret :: Interpret (v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech..

Mouth :: Mouth (n.) Speech; language; testimony.

Sonant :: Sonant (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate..

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling..

Faair-spoken :: Faair-spoken (a.) Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible..

Utterance :: Utterance (n.) Vocal expression; articulation; speech.

Misspeech :: Misspeech (n.) Wrong speech.

Parse :: Parse (n.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause..

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