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▪ I. rodomontade, n. and a.|rɒdəʊmɒnˈteɪd|
Also 7 rodomantade. β. 7–9 rhodomontade (7 rhado-, rhada-), 7–8 rhodomantade.
[a. F. rodomontade, It. rodomontata, † -ada (Florio): see prec. and -ade.]
A. n.
1. a. A vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech; † an arrogant act.
α1612Donne Lett. (1651) 128, 5 Challengers cartells, full of Rodomontades. 1646Buck Rich. III, i. 12 Then they might have acted their Rodomontades and injuries in a higher Straine. 1672Dryden Heroic Plays Ess. (Ker) I. 157, I could easily show you, that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational as his, nor so impossible to be put in execution. 1782Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 163 We need not care for all the fervida dicta, all the rodomontades, of France and Spain. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 50 Wherever he came he pressed horses in defiance of law,..and almost raised mobs by his insolent rodomontades. 1862Thackeray Philip viii, Poor Phil used to bore me after dinner with endless rodomontades about his passion and his charmer. 1874Motley John of Barneveld I. i. 74 Spain laughed at these rodomontades.
β1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. ii. 4 At the first view of so many Rhodomontades and bravings, we were in some doubt and amaze. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 29 The Theologist should be forbidden to write such Rhodomontads. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xliv, The rhodomontades they uttered on the subject of their generosity and courage. 1784F. Burney Lett. 7 Dec., I was called away in the midst of my rhodomontade, and have lost all zest for pursuing it. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 136 note, A species of conversation..which consisted of the most improbable rhodomontades. 1881Littell's Living Age 482 This disloyal rhodomontade was freely circulated throughout England.
b. Boastful or inflated language; extravagant boasting or bragging.
α1668Wilkins Real Char. 209 Arrogance,..Rodomontade, affectation of Empire. 1734tr. Rollins' Anc. Hist. III. vii. 449 Supplying his want of courage with rodomontade. 1829Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 392 We could discern its meaning through a cloud of rodomontade. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 9 A detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade.
βa1648Ld. Herbert Autobiogr. (1764) 160 The Duke de Crouy..said by way of Rhodomontade,..he saw all the rest of the World must bow under the Spaniard. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 276 To see..their rhodomontade and poetical bravado, we need only turn to our famous poet-laureat. 1796Southey Lett. fr. Spain (1799) 194 The Spaniards are not inferior in rhodomontade and national prejudices. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. II. viii. 194 A profusion of barbarous epithets and wilful rhodomontade. 1892Nation 25 Aug. 150/2 Tricoupis..has no sympathy with bluster and rhodomontade.
†2. transf. A braggart. = rodomont. Obs.
1692Hickeringill Good Old Cause Wks. 1716 II. 530, I can scarce pity that Rhodomantade, that dy'd upon the point of that Sword. a1697Aubrey Lives (1898) I. 90 There was a Rhadamontade that would fight with any man and bragged of his valour.
B. adj. Bragging; boastful; ranting.
αa1754Carte Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 661 There happened some rodomontad discourses in which he conceived himself affronted. 1803M. Charlton Wife & Mistress II. 175 Listening to the flighty and rodomontade ideas that passed his lips. 1822Scott Nigel xi, He again ran on in a grotesque and rodomontade account of the host.
β1767S. Paterson Anoth. Trav. II. 36 All this rhodomontade popish stuff. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man ii. i, He has got into such a rhodomontade manner. 1818Hazlitt Shaks. Plays (1838) 111 He is too hot and choleric, and somewhat rhodomontade. 1832S. R. Maitland Albigenses & Wald. 13 The same rhodomontade style of special pleading.
▪ II. rodomonˈtade, v.
Also rhod-.
[f. prec.]
intr. To boast, brag, talk big, rant.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 1083 To Rodomontade, inaniter..gloriari. 1755in Johnson. 1840H. Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 7 You have learnt to rhodomontade at the court of Madrid, I perceive. 1855Woman's Devotion III. 49 How long she would have rhodomontaded in this way, Nest could not tell.
Hence rodomonˈtading vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1698Collier Immor. Stage ii. (1738) 59 Rhodomontading.., bombastic. 1782F. Burney Cecilia x. vi, He soon finds there's nothing to be got by rhodomontading. 1787― Diary 16 Feb., I think his rhodomontading as innocent as that of our cousin. 1831W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 449 His hero a rodomontading Congressman from the Western States. 1859Athenæum 7 May 610 The careless or rhodomontading statements of earlier writers. |