elocute

verb2

1. •
   To speak, declaim, etc., in an elocutionary manner.
2. •
   (US) To state, assert or admit.

   • The girl, now 13, wore a green dress. She was somber as [Rudy Lozano] required Beith to elocute – state the charges against him and account for his role in the crime. — 2002