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Webster 1913 Edition
Harangue
Ha-rangue′
(hȧ-răng′)
, Noun.
[F.
harangue
: cf. Sp. arenga
, It. aringa
; lit., a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo
arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring
ring, anything round, ring of people, G. ring
. See Ring
.] A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address to a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.
Speech is generic; an oration is an elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues the populace on the subject of their wrongs.
Ha-rangue′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Harangued
(hȧ-răngd′)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Haranguing
.] [Cf. F.
haranguer
, It. aringare
.] To make an harangue; to declaim.
Ha-rangue′
,Verb.
T.
To address by an harangue.
Webster 1828 Edition
Harangue
HARANGUE
,Noun.
1.
A speech addressed to an assembly or an army; a popular oration; a public address. This word seems to imply loudness or declamation, and is therefore appropriated generally to an address made to a popular assembly or to an army, and not to a sermon, or to an argument at the bar of a court, or to a speech in a deliberative council, unless in contempt.2.
Declamation; a noisy, pompous or irregular address.HARANGUE
,Verb.
I.
HARANGUE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
harangué
harangué
See also: harangue
French
Verb
harangué m (feminine singular haranguée, masculine plural harangués, feminine plural haranguées)
- past participle of haranguer