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A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address 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. Milton.

Additional info about word: HARANGUE

A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address 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. Milton. 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. (more info) a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring, anything round, ring of

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARANGUE)

• Declaim
• Harangue
• recite
• apostrophize
• speak
• debate
• inveigh
• Declamation
• Oratory
• elocution
• harangue
• effusion

Related words: (words related to HARANGUE)

• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• ELOCUTIONARY
  Pertaining to elocution.
• DEBATEMENT
  Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
• HARANGUE
  A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address 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. Milton.
• APOSTROPHIZE
  1. To address by apostrophe. 2. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe or apostrophes.
• ORATORY
  A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• DEBATER
  One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
• RECITER
  One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• HARANGUEFUL
  Full of harangue.
• DECLAIM
  1. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week. 2. To speak
• RECITE
  To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5. Syn. -- To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count. (more info) 1. To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like;
• DECLAIMER
  One who declaims; an haranguer.
• DECLAMATION
  1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with
• INVEIGH
  To declaim or rail ; to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law,
• DECLAIMANT
  A declaimer.
• ELOCUTIONIST
  One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
• ELOCUTION
  1. Utterance by speech. whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton. 2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner
• DEBATE
  1. To engage in combat for; to strive for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott. 2. To contend for in words or arguments;
• IMPLORATORY
  Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• MORATORY
  Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• LABORATORY
  The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• CORROBORATORY
  Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
• ELABORATORY
  Tending to elaborate.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.