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▪ I. harangue, n.|həˈræŋ|
Forms: 5 arang, 7 har(r)ange, harang, 8 harrangue, 7– harangue.
[In Scottish writers from c 1450: in Eng. after 1600: a. OF. arenge (14–15th c.), harangue (16th c.), ad. med.L. harenga in same sense, It. aringa, Pr., Sp. arenga; 68 cf. It. aringo place of declamation, arena, etc. Referred by Diez to OHG. hring, MHG. ring, ring, circle of auditors, spectators, etc., arena.]
A speech addressed to an assembly; a loud or vehement address, a tirade; formerly, sometimes, a formal or pompous speech.
a1450Ratis Raving i. 243 To tell the al how mycht befall, To lang arang men wald it call. 1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Oratio, a praier, a harang, speeche. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §2. 32 Sweetely touched with eloquence and perswasion of Bookes, of Sermones, of haranges. c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 313 All who heard his grave Harangue. 1611Cotgr., Sermon..an Harang, or Oration, made vnto the people. 1660Trial Regic. 86 He made a long harrange about that horrid Act. 1711Steele Spect. No. 32 ⁋2 Mr. President began an Harangue upon your Introduction to my Epistle. 1791Cowper Odyss. ii. 112 Telemachus, intemp'rate in harangue. 1834Macaulay Pitt Ess. (1854) 298 He uttered his spirit-stirring harangues. 1838Thirlwall Greece III. 219 He called an assembly..and made a harangue in vindication of his past conduct.
b. Comb., as harangue-maker, one who makes a harangue; spec. the speaker or chairman in the old Scottish parliament.
1560in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 127 Harangue-maker. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. II. App. 141 His lieutenant for this time, is chosen speaker of the parliament, or harangue-maker as these men call it.
▪ II. harangue, v.
Also 8 harrangue.
[a. F. haranguer (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ‘to make an Oration; to preach or speak long vnto’, Cotgr.]
1. intr. To make an address or speech to an assembly; to deliver a harangue; to declaim.
1660Evelyn Mem. 4 July, I heard Sir Samuel Tuke harangue to the House of Lords. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 67 ⁋19 Such as harangue in Pulpits. 1766Goldsm Vic. W. xi, My wife..undertook to harangue for the family. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1837) II. 14 There is no subject, which men in general like better to harangue on than politics. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 437 Haranguing against each other, moving votes of censure.
2. trans. To address in a harangue; to make a formal public speech to.
1682Wood Life 31 May, Thence to the Physick Garden where Dr. (Robert) Morison harangued him [the Moorish ambassador]. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xliii. 591 He often harangued the troops. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xv. 119 Heard the voice of T.R...haranguing the mob. a1862Buckle 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.
a1678Marvell Wks. II. 307 (R.) The author..indeavoured to harangue up the nation into fury against tender consciences. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 128 The Doctor..harangues them out of the little Sense they have.
Hence haˈranguing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1708R. O. in Hearne's Collect. 2 Jan. (O.H.S.) II. 91 Y⊇ Haranguing Tribe yt fills y⊇ dignitys in y⊇ Church. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 435 His talent at haranguing. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) I. 158 The haranguing style to which Plato was in general so averse. |
