ˈrantə(r), -aan-, -ain- noun
( -s )
1. : one that rants ; especially : a noisy bombastic speaker
2. usually capitalized
a. : a member of a 17th century pantheistic, antinomian, and highly individualistic religious group in England
b. : a member of the Primitive Methodists who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists as being deficient in fervor and zeal — usually used in derision and in allusion to the loud tones of their preaching and responses