hold forth

hold forth
    v 1: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker
         dissertated about the social politics in 18th century
         England" [syn: {hold forth}, {discourse}, {dissertate}]
    

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "hold forth":
      debate, declaim, demagogue, discourse, elocute, explain, exposit,
      expound, extend, harangue, hold out, lecture, monologize,
      monopolize the conversation, moralize, mouth, offer, orate,
      out-herod Herod, perorate, point a moral, preach, prefer, present,
      proffer, put up, rabble-rouse, rant, read, read a lesson, recite,
      rodomontade, say aside, sermonize, soliloquize, spiel, spout,
      submit, tender, think aloud, think out loud, tub-thump