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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ha·rangue       [huh-rang] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -rangued, -rangu·ing.
–noun
1.a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2.a long, passionate, and vehement speech, esp. one delivered before a public gathering.
3.any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.
–verb (used with object)
4.to address in a harangue.
–verb (used without object)
5.to deliver a harangue.

[Origin: 1530–40; (n.) < MF harangue < It ar(r)inga speech, oration, n. deriv. of ar(r)ingare to speak in public, v. deriv. of aringo public square < Goth *hriggs ring1; (v.) < MF haranguer < It ar(r)ingare]
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ha·rangue       (hə-rāng')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering.
  2. A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade.

v.   ha·rangued, ha·rangu·ing, ha·rangues

v.   tr.
To deliver a harangue to.

v.   intr.
To deliver a harangue.


[Middle English arang, a speech to an assembly, from Old French harangue, from Old Italian aringa, from aringare, to speak in public, probably from aringo, arringa, public square, meeting place, of Germanic origin; see koro- in Indo-European roots.]

ha·rangu'er n.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
harangue 
c.1450, Scottish arang (in Eng. from c.1600), from M.Fr. harangue, from It. aringo "public square, platform," from Goth. *hriggs (pronounced "hrings"), from P.Gmc. *ring "circular gathering." The first -a- inserted to ease Romance pronunciation of Gmc. hr- (cf. hamper (n.)).

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
harangue

noun
1. a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion 

verb
1. deliver a harangue to; address forcefully 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Harangue

Ha*rangue"\, n. [F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenda, 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 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.

Usage: 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Harangue

Ha*rangue"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harangued; p. pr. & vb. n. Haranguing.] [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.] To make an harangue; to declaim.

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Harangue

Ha*rangue"\, v. t. To address by an harangue.

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