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单词 tirade
释义

tiraden.

Brit. /tʌɪˈreɪd/, /tᵻˈreɪd/, U.S. /ˈtaɪˌreɪd/, /ˌtaɪˈreɪd/
Etymology: < modern French tirade (16th cent.) a draught, pull, shot; a long speech, declamation; passage of prose or verse, stanza, paragraph; < Italian tirata a volley, etc., < past participle of tirare to draw, etc. (compare tire n.3): see -ade suffix.
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).
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