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tirade, n.|tɪ-, taɪˈreɪd|
[a. mod.F. tirade (16th c.) a draught, pull, shot; a long speech, declamation; passage of prose or verse, stanza, paragraph; ad. It. tirata a volley, etc., f. pa. pple. of tirare to draw, etc. (cf. tire n.3): see -ade.]
1. A volley of words; a long and vehement speech on some subject; a declamation; a protracted harangue, esp. of denunciation, abuse, or invective.
1801M. Edgeworth Angelina iv, ‘Another cup of tea..’, said Miss Hodges, when she had finished her tirade. 1809H. More Cœlebs II. 236 A fine high-sounding tirade, Charles, spoken con amore. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 115 Let him hear this debate, these tirades of infamous falsehoods. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxiii, She listened with a melancholy smile to her guide's tirade in praise of liberty. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 27 Tirades of bombastic nonsense. 1874Green Short Hist. vi. §4. 306 The King..had..to impose silence on the tirades which were delivered from the University pulpit. 1899E. W. Gosse Donne I. 131 The preface is a curious tirade.
2. spec. A passage or section of verse, of varying length, treating of a single theme or idea.
1806Scott Let. Sept. (1932) I. 321 Tales they had heard in infancy with here & there a tirade really taken from an old poem. 1878Hueffer Troubadours 250 note, Tirades or paragraphs of varying lengths, bound together by the same rhyme. 1879Saintsbury in Encycl. Brit. IX. 638/1 The lines [in the chansons de gestes] are arranged, not in couplets or in stanzas of equal length, but in laisses or tirades, consisting of any number of lines from half a dozen to some hundreds... Sometimes the tirade is completed by a shorter line. 1900G. Santayana Poetry & Relig. 257 Euphuism contributes not a little to the poetic effect of the tirades of Keats and Shelley. 1901J. Hall K. Horn p. li, The poem extends to 5,250 alexandrines rhymed in tirades.
3. Mus. (See quot.)
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Tirade, the filling up of an interval between two notes with a run, in vocal or instrumental music.
Hence tiˈrade v., intr. to utter or write a tirade; to inveigh or declaim vehemently.
1871R. B. Vaughan St. Thomas Aquinas II. 683 note, They tirade against the influence of dogma. 1905Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 2/1 The papers tirade against England. 1907J. F. Fraser in Standard 13 Mar., A Welsh member tiraded on what the Welsh Church Commission should not do. |