That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the
tradesmen speak.
Boyle.
An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
Shak.
During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there
is, to speak strictly, no English history.
Macaulay.
3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public
assembly formally.
Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in
Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his
majesty.
Clarendon.