α. 1600s–1700s randing.
β. 1600s– ranting; also Scottish 1700s 1900s– rantin, 1800s rantin'; also Irish English (northern) 1800s rantin'.
单词 | ranting |
释义 | rantingn.α. 1600s–1700s randing. β. 1600s– ranting; also Scottish 1700s 1900s– rantin, 1800s rantin'; also Irish English (northern) 1800s rantin'. The action of rant v. (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > action or conduct recolagea1400 racket1565 ranting1633 raking1700 rakery1712 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous riotingc1390 revelling1395 revelc1400 revelryc1410 revel-rout?1499 jetting1509 deray?a1513 company keeping1529 banqueting1535 roistingc1560 wassailinga1586 riotise1590 roister-doisterdom1592 reels1603 roaring1617 ranting1633 rattle1688 high jinks1699 roistering1805 spree1808 wassailry1814 revelment1822 Tom and Jerryism1822 spreeing1845 to be on the roister1860 riotousness1882 whoopee1928 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style inflation1603 windinessa1613 ranting1633 tumoura1639 turgency1654 tympany1680 swell1744 turgidity1756 turgidness1757 tumidity1791 ráiméis1828 mouthiness1830 spread-eagleism1858 inflatedness1867 ampullosity1869 telegraphese1870 mouthing1876 Barnumese1889 intumescence1893 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > piece of bombast ranting1633 rant1652 bloviation1850 mouthing1884 spruik1902 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter iii. iii. 1153 For an hypocrite to decline open randing..and revels; it is no wonder. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 40 [He] was the scandal of all Nicocia, though his ranting..made him [etc.]. 1672 J. Gregory Let. 17 Jan. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 231 I am afraid ye will find these Cogitationes..to be but ranting. 1698 E. Settle Def. Dramatick Poetry 47 The Ranting of Tragedy, and the Fiction of Comedy. 1718 S. Keimer Brand Pluck'd from Burning 92 What Fightings, Roarings, Rantings was I witness to? 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry III. v. 153 Raving and ranting, however it may on the stage attain a thundering acclamation from the upper gallery, will never pass for soft sensibility of heart. 1786 R. Burns Poems 61 A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin..will send him..To your black pit. 1799 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn I. iii. 27 His speeches seemed, however, like the rantings of an actor, to be rehearsed by rote or for the sake of exercise. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician III. iii. viii. 187 The scene..was nobly acted, without ranting. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xli. 285 He could not disturb me, with all his raving and ranting. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 59/1 All their great organs of opinion..are filled with denunciations of the proceedings that went on in Washington during his brief reign, and of lofty ranting against his friends of the so-called Ohio Gang. 1964 C. Beaton Diary Apr. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xxvi. 371 All the actors in this company have a mastery of style, a reverence for the poetry and none of the ranting of the old ham. 2007 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 2 Mar. No longer can the killings be dismissed as the wild rantings of a rabid Left. CompoundsΚΠ 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiv. 276 There was some very good ranting ground in [the part of] Frederick. View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). rantingadj. 1. That rants (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [adjective] > noisy or riotous revelousc1405 roistinga1556 roisterous1575 roaringa1593 ranting1609 roistering1613 tory-rory1678 scouring1691 wassailous1893 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic > using bombastic style mouthy1589 fustian1600 mouthing1627 bombastic1727 ranting1771 bloviating1851 telegraphese1881 sophomoric1891 1609 W. Rowley Search for Money (1842) 31 An audatious mouthing-randing-impudent..rascal. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 179 Looke where my ranting-Host [1602 ramping host] of the Garter comes:..hee lookes so merrily. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 143 When that same ranting fellow Alcibiades fell on Demagoging for the Sicilian War. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iv. i. 40 I fancy my Breeches wou'd become me as well as any ranting Fellow of 'um all. 1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) I. x. 36 All the affected agitation and vehemence of voice and gesture of a ranting player. 1771 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 149 Some of the wild, ranting Antinomians. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vi. 621 Marston is a tumid and ranting tragedian. 1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 216/1 In 1715, a change came over him that brought him into contact with the ranting convulsionist, Frederick Rock..and others of the ‘awakened’. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn iii. 46 I don't care so much for some of these ranting street-corner socialists. 1945 W. E. Henley Study in ‘Counter-decadence’ of 'Nineties i. 4 Byron the ranting egoist, fundamentally insincere of thought and expression. 1997 Empire Sept. 132/2 He was a ranting, wild-eyed, beardy, spooky old fish. 2. Characterized by or consisting of ranting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic fleshyc1369 windya1382 unmeasureda1425 puffing1566 embossed1578 puffed1587 bombasted1589 fustian1592 puffya1594 full-mouthed1594 orificial1594 gouty1595 swelling1597 mouth-filling1598 taffeta1598 bombast1601 tiptoe-strouting1602 turgidous1602 swollen1605 dropsieda1616 exsufflicatea1616 turgent1621 ampullous1622 tympanous1625 high-flown1632 tumorousa1637 blustered1638 tumid1648 bombastical1649 ranting1650 inflated1652 tuftaffetya1658 pompiona1670 bombastic1704 dropsical1721 thundering1725 turgid1725 exsuffolate1744 Lexiphanic1767 hi cockalorum1783 Ossianic1788 mouthing1814 mouthy1827 sophomoric1837 highfalutin1839 sophomorical1847 spread eagle1853 tumescent1882 Herodian1886 Ossianesque1889 Barnumesque1890 1650 R. Heath Epigrams ii. 56 in Clarastella Squire Huffe had got a vap'ring trick to talk High ranting words. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 470 [He] sent to Jonathan..a ranting challenge to meet him if he dared. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1318 Flat impertinence or ranting Enthusiasm. 1713 Capt. Bland Northern Atalantis (ed. 2) 24 Thy Ranting Doings and Prophane Noise is very disagreable. 1797 R. Burdsall Mem. 9 When we came up to them, he, with a ranting speech, said to them, ‘you are all Methodists.’ 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 252 The ranting suppers in Redgauntlet Castle. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Those Extraordinary Twins ii, in Pudd'nhead Wilson (new ed.) 333 ‘Bob Ridley’ is a common rackety slam-bang secular song, one of the rippingest and rantingest and noisiest there is. 1929 Oxf. Poetry 40 The ranting numbers do not pierce your ear. 1992 Independent 1 Apr. 18/4 Rousing supporters..with his searing, slightly ranting rhetoric, he brushes off allegations..as if they were irritating, but unimportant, flies. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] wildc1000 unthewedc1175 wanton?a1300 rabbisha1387 irregular1395 inordinate1398 unruly1400 misgoverned?a1425 misruled?a1425 misruly?a1425 unruleful1439 seditious1447 rulelessc1460 turbulous1527 undaunted1533 turbulent1538 unordinate1561 rowsey1565 misorderlya1568 disruly1570 rabbling1575 disorderous1579 irregulate1579 disorderly1585 break-dance1587 willyart?1590 unguided1600 inorderly1606 anarchial1609 irregulousa1616 unmasterlya1623 uncomposed1631 obstreperous1641 disriegled1657 ranting1658 rantipole1660 reuling1691 shandy1691 rumblegarie1722 randy1723 obstropolous1727 wanruly1773 polrumptious1787 ree-raw1800 rambunctious1830 roid1874 unordered1929 rogue1948 1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James (1673) 478 Horses, that are far less ranting, and easier brought to an even temper. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective] fine1526 garish1545 flaunting1567 gawish1567 taffety1597 showful1607 flaming1609 flaring1610 over-brave1620 showish1675 rantingc1685 gaudy1709 showy1712 tinselled1738 kicky1790 flaunty1796 flashy1801 slangish1813 florid1815 tigerish1831 flash1836 flary1841 loud1850 flashy-looking1852 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 flagrant1858 jingo1859 cheesy1863 orchidaceous1864 flamboyant1879 vociferous1883 voyant1906 grandstanding1908 floozy1911 ritzy1919 like a (or the) dog's dinner1927 plush horse1936 kitsch1953 zazzy1961 pizzazz1969 c1685 Bagford Ball. App. Her Kitchin-stuff she often will sell, to purchase that Ranting Attire. c. Originally and chiefly Scottish. Of a fire: blazing, roaring. Also in extended use. Now rare. ΚΠ 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i. 58 I'll make a rantin Fire, and merry sall we be. 1880 J. E. Watt Poet. Sketches 75 A red rantin' fire. 1911 R. S. Clymer Christisis iv. 51 This gentle heat or flame will become a ranting flame until the vibratory forces are so strong that it fills the whole body with intense heat. Derivatives ˈrantingly adv. ΚΠ 1663 J. Heath Brief Chron. Intestine War (ed. 2) iii. 638 Van Trump..rantingly battered Dover with his whole Fleet. 1690 E. Warren Geologia (new ed.) vi. 125 Oil his virulent and sawcy tongue, to run more glibly and rantingly on. 1788 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum II. 117 Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gae'd he. 1895 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 450/2 Has not Scotia given her poet to the slack dependent of the gallows-tree, who so rantingly played his jig and wheeled it round in the shadow of that institution? 1981 Forbes (Nexis) 9 Nov. 25 Rantingly strident religious fundamentalists now literally rule a country—Iran. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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