/heuh rang"/ , n. , v. , harangued, haranguing .
n.
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.
v.t.
4. to address in a harangue.
v.i.
5. to deliver a harangue.
[ 1530-40; (n.) harangue ar ( r ) inga speech, oration, n. deriv. of ar ( r ) ingare to speak in public, v. deriv. of aringo public square hriggs RING 1 ; (v.) haranguer ar ( r ) ingare ]