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invective, a. and n.|ɪnˈvɛktɪv|
Also 6 en-.
[a. F. invectif, -ive adj., invective n. (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad, late L. invectīvus ‘reproachful, abusive’, in med.L. invectīva (sc. ōrātio) as n., f. ppl. stem of invehĕre: see invect and -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Using or characterized by denunciatory or railing language; inclined to inveigh; expressing bitter denunciation; vituperative, abusive. Now rare.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas vi. xv. (MS. Bodl. 263) 336/2 He..Compiled hadde an Invectiff scripture Ageyn Antoyne. 1576A. Hall Acc. Quarrell (1815) 35 Divers invective speeches..had passed in the same. 1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1859) 58 What is the matter good wife (quoth I) that you use such invective words against the collier? a1661Fuller Worthies, Cambr. i. (1662) 153 He was..always devoted to Queen Mary, but never invective against Queen Elizabeth. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 120 They kept a fast to pray for success to the Pretender's arms, and a thanksgiving for his arrival..and were very invective and bitter. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 471 Cicero..made a reply to him on the spot in an Invective speech, the severest perhaps, that was ever spoken by any man. 1866Athenæum No. 2001. 299/3 What we may call invective history. 1890E. Johnson Rise Christendom 368 William, the invective opponent of the..friars.
†2. Carried or borne in (against something). Obs.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 244 As hugh rocks doe regorge th' invective waves.
B. n.
1. A violent attack in words; a denunciatory or railing speech, writing, or expression.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 96 Iuuenall was thret parde for to kyll For certayne enuectyfs, yet wrote he none ill. 1546Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 84 Theyr sermons were lytle other then inuectiues agaynst vsery. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. xvii. 183 This it is that fills..Pamphlets with spightfull invectives. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxvii. (1869) II. 82 Their satirical wit degenerated into sharp and angry invectives. 1839James Louis XIV, IV. 342 The duke, in going down stairs, poured forth volleys of invectives upon the Chief President. 1844Thirlwall Greece lxii. VIII. 177 Cleomenes..sent a letter to the assembly, containing bitter invectives against Aratus.
2. (Without pl.) Denunciatory or opprobrious language; vehement denunciation; vituperation.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 26 Yet the Græcians did not alwaies suffer this licentious rage and inuectiue of Poets. a1770Jortin Serm. (1771) V. xix. 401 The book of Proverbs is full of invective and indignation against..those profligates. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 27 He burst out into a torrent of invective. |