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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.
Syn. –
Harangue
,
Speech
,
Oration
.
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.
harang'. har'ang.
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.
harang'. To make an address or speech to a large assembly; to make a noisy speech.

HARANGUE

,
Verb.
T.
harang'. To address by oration; as, the general harangued the troops.

Definition 2024

harangué

harangué

See also: harangue

French

Verb

harangué m ‎(feminine singular haranguée, masculine plural harangués, feminine plural haranguées)

  1. past participle of haranguer

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