单词 | harangue |
释义 | haranguen. A speech addressed to an assembly; a loud or vehement address, a tirade; formerly, sometimes, a formal or pompous speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > a tirade, harangue, or rant haranguea1450 arangc1475 declamation1593 rant1652 declamatory1688 splutter1688 tirade1801 a1450 Ratis Raving i. 243 To tell the al how mycht befall, To lang arang men wald it call. 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Oratio, a praier, a harang, speeche. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I1v Sweetely touched with eloquence and perswasion of Bookes, of Sermons, of haranges . View more context for this quotation c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1735) 313 All who heard his grave Harangue. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sermon,..an Harang, or Oration, made vnto the people. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 86 He made a long harrange about that horrid Act. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋2 Mr. President began an Harangue upon your Introduction to my Epistle. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. ii. 112 Telemachus, intemp'rate in harangue. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1854) 298 He uttered his spirit-stirring harangues. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 219 He called an assembly..and made a harangue in vindication of his past conduct. Compounds harangue-maker n. one who makes a harangue; spec. the speaker or chairman in the old Scottish parliament. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > political or parliamentary harangue-maker1560 stumper1863 spellbinder1888 1560 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 127 Harangue-maker. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. II. App. 141 His lieutenant for this time, is chosen speaker of the parliament, or harangue-maker as these men call it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). haranguev. 1. intransitive. To make an address or speech to an assembly; to deliver a harangue; to declaim. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > harangue or declaim spout1556 harangue1660 declaim1735 bloviate1845 to bust (a person's) balls1946 1660 J. Evelyn Mem. 4 July I heard Sir Samuel Tuke harangue to the House of Lords. 1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 67 Such as harangue in Pulpits. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xi. 107 My wife..undertook to harangue for the family. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) II. 14 There is no subject, which men in general like better to harangue on than politics. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 437 Haranguing against each other, moving votes of censure. 2. a. transitive. To address in a harangue; to make a formal public speech to. ΚΠ 1682 A. Wood Life 31 May Thence to the Physick Garden where Dr. (Robert) Morison harangued him [the Moorish ambassador]. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xliii. 591 He often harangued the troops. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 146 The voice of Tom..haranguing the mob. a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 553 In the sixteenth century ambassadors were obliged to harangue princes in Latin. b. To urge out of or into by haranguing. ΚΠ a1678 A. Marvell Wks. II. 307 (R.) The author..indeavoured to harangue up the nation into fury against tender consciences. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 128 The Doctor,..harangues them out of the little Sense they have. Derivatives haˈranguing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [adjective] > lecturing or declamatory declamatory1581 spouting1630 haranguing1708 lecturing1797 preachy1819 table-thumping1908 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > haranguing or declaiming haranguing1708 ear-bashing1945 1708 R. O. in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 2 Jan. (O.H.S.) II. 91 Ye Haranguing Tribe yt fills ye dignitys in ye Church. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 435 His talent at haranguing. 1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 158 The haranguing style to which Plato was in general so averse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1450v.1660 |
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