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diatribe, n.|ˈdaɪətraɪb|
Formerly also in L. form diatriba.
[a. F. diatribe (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. diatriba a learned discussion, a school, a. Gr. διατριβή a wearing away (of time), employment, study, and (in Plato) discourse, f. διατρίβ-ειν to rub through or away. The senses in F. and Eng. exactly correspond.]
1. A discourse, disquisition, critical dissertation. arch.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 246 b, I heare the sounde of an Argument from the Popish Diatriba. 1643R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 65 Some parergetick Diatribes of that matter. 1672Mede's Wks. Gen. Pref. A, That excellent Diatriba upon S. Mark i. 15. 1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1820/4 The constant Communicant; a Diatribe, proving that Constancy in receiving the Lords Supper is the indispensable Duty of every Christian. 1703J. Quick Dec. Wife's Sister Lett., Possibly this poor Diatribe may contribute something thereunto. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) II. xxiv. 397, I shall conclude this diatribe upon the noises of insects. 1875Lowell Spenser Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 273 A diatribe on the subject of descriptive poetry.
2. In modern use: A dissertation or discourse directed against some person or work; a bitter and violent criticism; an invective.
1804Scott Let. Ellis in Lockhart Life xiii, One must always regret so very serious a consequence of a diatribe. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. II. 132 On the appearance of this bitter diatribe in 1797. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxviii, A rambling, bitter diatribe on the wrongs and sufferings of the labourers. 1854Thackeray Newcomes II. 293 Breaking out into fierce diatribes. 1877Morley Carlyle Crit. Misc. Ser. i. (1878) 201 The famous diatribe against Jesuitism in the Latter-Day Pamphlets.
Hence ˈdiatribe v. intr., to utter a diatribe; to inveigh bitterly.
1893National Observer 6 May 630/1 Why diatribe against the tradesmen of Liskeard? |