Harangue /(hȧ*răng")/

Ha·rangue

Harangue

n.
  1. 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.
    Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard.
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.

Harangue

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Harangued; p. pr. & vb. n. Haranguing

  1. To make an harangue; to declaim.

Harangue

v. t.
  1. To address by an harangue.