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• by-speech

Noun

byspeech ‎(plural byspeeches)

1. An incidental or casual speech not directly relating to the point.
   • 2008, Heliopolitan, My Archbishop is a 'false teacher' says priest, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/07/my_archbishop_is_a_false_teach.html:

     That notwithstanding, I would of course suggest that the whole damn corpus is a "byspeech", and morality and ethical conduct come from much more reliable sources - our experience and application of our social relationships that do not require the alleged authority of a text or an imaginary supreme lawgiver.