Defn: 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.
HARANGUE
Ha*rangue", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harangued; p. pr. & vb. n.
Haranguing.] Etym: [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.]
Defn: To make an harangue; to declaim.
HARANGUE
Ha*rangue", v. t.
Defn: To address by an harangue.
HARANGUEFUL
Ha*rangue"ful, a.
Defn: Full of harangue.
HARANGUER
Ha*rang"uer, n.
Defn: One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.