单词 | tirade |
释义 | tiraden. 1. A volley of words; a long and vehement speech on some subject; a declamation; a protracted harangue, esp. of denunciation, abuse, or invective. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > tirade of invective or abuse invective1523 raila1529 philippic1592 steletic1653 Steliteutic1751 tirade1801 diatribe1804 tertullianade1819 blast1874 pop-off1935 mouthful1941 flak1968 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > a tirade, harangue, or rant haranguea1450 arangc1475 declamation1593 rant1652 declamatory1688 splutter1688 tirade1801 1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina iv, in Moral Tales II. 108 ‘Another cup of tea..,’ said miss Hodges, when she had finished her tirade. 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xxxviii. 278 A fine high sounding tirade, Charles, spoken con amore. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 115 Let him hear this debate, these tirades of infamous falsehoods. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. xiii. 315 She listened with a melancholy smile to her guide's tirade in praise of liberty. 1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 27 Tirades of bombastic nonsense. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §4. 306 The King..had..to impose silence on the tirades which were delivered from the University pulpit. 1899 E. Gosse Life J. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > passage > treating of single theme tirade1806 laisse1872 1806 W. Scott Lett. (1932) I. 321 Tales they had heard in infancy with here and there a tirade really taken from an old poem. 1878 F. Hueffer Troubadours 250 (note) Tirades or paragraphs of varying lengths, bound together by the same rhyme. 1879 Saintsbury 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. 1900 G. Santayana Poetry & Relig. 257 Euphuism contributes not a little to the poetic effect of the tirades of Keats and Shelley. 1901 J. Hall K. Horn p. li The poem extends to 5,250 alexandrines rhymed in tirades. 3. Music. (See quot. 1876.) ΚΠ 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 435/1 Tirade, the filling up of an interval between two notes with a run, in vocal or instrumental music. Derivatives tiˈrade v. (intransitive) to utter or write a tirade; to inveigh or declaim vehemently. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > utter invective or abuse [verb (intransitive)] railc1475 envy1477 inveigh1529 blaspheme1584 invect1614 invectivate1624 to cast, throw, or fling dirt1642 ran-tan1660 philippicize1799 to fire a broadside1827 tirade1871 diatribe1893 rort1931 foul-mouth1960 1871 R. B. Vaughan St. Thomas of Aquin II. 683 (note) They tirade against the influence of dogma. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 2/1 The papers tirade against England. 1907 J. F. Fraser in Standard 13 Mar. A Welsh member tiraded on what the Welsh Church Commission should not do. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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