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单词 rant
释义 I. rant, n.|rænt|
[f. the vb.]
1. A high-flown, extravagant, or bombastic speech or utterance; a piece of turgid declamation; a tirade.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cxl, 'Tis a brave Costly Rant th' Hesperian King vtters with many Titles.1668Dryden Maiden Queen Epil., I left my Client yonder in a Rant Against the Envious, and the Ignorant.1717Atterbury Let. to Pope 8 Nov., What I look'd upon as a Rant of Barrow's, I now begin to think a serious Truth.1787F. Burney Diary 6 Mar., Then broke forth one of his most flighty rants of compliments.1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 139 He sometimes,..in his rants, talked with Norman haughtiness of the Celtic barbarians.
b. A violent scolding. Obs. rare.
1663Pepys Diary 14 Mar., A great rant I did give to Mr. Davis..and others about their usage of Michell.1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, If canker'd Madge, our aunt, Come up the burn, she'll gie's a wicked rant.
c. A ranting state or condition.
1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 207 Her former behaviour was a kind of rant, or fit.1801C. Gadsden in J. Adams's Wks. 1854 IX. 579 The uncommonly extravagant ravings of our own times..still in the highest rant.1876C. M. Davies Unorth. London (ed. 2) 42, I set out one May evening to see the Tabernacle ‘on the rant’.
2. Extravagant or bombastic language or sentiments; magniloquent and empty declamation.
1708J. Philips Cyder (1807) 99 Nought is heard But din, and various clamor, and mad rant.1762Kames Elem. Crit. xvii. (1833) 234 The following passages are pure rant.1820Scott Abbot xxxi, He..need not plead his cause with the commonplace rant of romantic passion.1861J. G. Holland Lessons in Life viii. 119 They strain their brains..and wear themselves out repeating the rant of their sect and the cant of their schools.
b. A declamatory way of speaking. rare—1.
c1742Johnson in Boswell an. 1744, The players, Sir, have got a kind of rant, with which they run on, without any regard either to accent or emphasis.
3. north. dial. and Sc. A boisterous, riotous frolic or merry-making; a spree. Also transf.
1675in Thoresby Ducatus Leodensis (1715) App. 617 In December the same Year was an Epidemick Distemper profanely called the Jolly Rant; it was a severe Cold, and violent Cough.1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3944/4 The Yearly Fox and Hare Hunting, famous by the Name of Dalton Rant.1786Burns Scotch Drink viii, Thou art the life o' public haunts; But thee, what were our fairs and rants?1816Scott Bl. Dwarf ii, A rant amang the lasses, or a splore at a fair.1876Mid-Yorks. Gloss. s.v., The feast-days of Nidderdale localities are called rants.
4. (Chiefly Sc.) A lively, noisy, or irregular tune or song.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, How heartsome is't..To hear the birds chirm o'er their pleasing rants!1830Sir J. Barrington Pers. Sk. Own Times (ed. 2) II. 166, I think our rants and planxties would have answered just as well without either symphonies or chromatics.1898Munro John Splendid xi. 112 A tune they call ‘The Galley of the Waves,’ a Stewart rant.
II. rant, v.|rænt|
[a. obs. Du. randten, ranten (also randen: see rand v.) to talk foolishly, to rave; cf. G. ranzen to frolic, spring about, etc.]
1. intr. ( or with it). To talk or declaim in an extravagant high-flown manner; to use bombastic language.
1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 307 Nay, and thou'lt mouth, Ile rant as well as thou.1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xii. 40 Those that talk at this rate rant it, and speak unintelligible riddles.1747in Doran Mann & Manners (1876) I. xi. 250 As an Actress..she does extremely well..She rants a little too much whilst she is in woman's cloaths.1781Cowper Table-t. 299 In such a cause I grant An English poet's privilege to rant.1864Knight Passages Work. Life II. viii. 169 Pretended teachers of political economy..were ranting in popular assemblies.
b. To storm or scold violently. Const. at, against. Obs.
1647Cowley Mistr., Rich Rival i, They say you're angry, and rant mightily.1664Pepys Diary 5 Feb., Which I ranted at him for when he came in.1667Poole Dial. betw. Protest. & Papist (1735) 63, I have heard some of your Priests ranting highly against our Translation.1710Palmer Proverbs 206 Children and servants must never be suffer'd to..insult and rant at one another.
2. intr. ( or with it). To be jovial, boisterous, uproariously gay or merry; to lead a gay or dissolute life; also, to sing loudly.
1598[see ranting ppl. a.].1641Brome Joviall Crew (1651) 15 The more the merrier, I am resolv'd to Rant it to the last.1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 84 He permitted them securely to rant and be joviall as in peace.1700Farquhar Constant Couple iv. i, I'll Court, and Swear and Rant, and Rake.1785Burns Jolly Beggars, 1st Recit., Wi' quaffing and laughing, They ranted and they sang.1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 95 The birds that ranted in the hedge-row boughs.1824Scott Redgauntlet let. x, If ye expect to be ranting among the queans o' lasses.., Ye will come by the waur.
3. trans. To utter in a declamatory and bombastic manner; to mouth. Also with out.
1650W. Saunderson Aul. Coquin. 97 He hath ranted his Stories of Mansell..and of the peace.1788F. Burney Diary 13 Feb., To hear a man rant such stuff.1805T. Harral Scenes of Life III. 34 Ranting out some speeches of Hamlet.1865Morley Mod. Characteristics 150 Ranting Carlyle and Emerson by the volume.

Add:[1.] c. To speak or discourse vehemently, intemperately, or wildly; freq. with on (implying duration) or const. at (a person), about (a subject), to ‘go on’ (at one about something). Also in phr. to rant and rave.
1898S. MacManus Bend of Road 203 The mother, sure enough, raived an' ranted all over the house about it.1959F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) viii. 64 J. C. Huffman, the stage director, was a very capable man for this type of show and he really screamed and ranted to get his points across.1961S. Chaplin Day of Sardine viii. 164, I know a lot of people that rant on about their religion and it doesn't do any good.1974J. Gardner Nickel Mountain i. x. 44 Callie's hand was reaching once more toward Henry Soames' wrist, but he ranted on, trying to tell the story to Willard Freund.1983N. Bawden Ice House ii. iv. 73 All the same, I shouldn't have ranted on at you.1984D. Leavitt Family Dancing (1985) 113 It's easy for you to just stand there and rant and rave.
III. rant
obs. form of rent, pa. pple. rend v.
IV. rant
var. rand n.2
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