rodomontaden.adj.

Brit.

/ˌrɒdəmɒnˈtɑːd/,

/ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd/, U.S.

/ˈˌrɑdəmənˈteɪd/,

/ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈteɪd/,

/ˈˌrɑdəmənˈtɑd/,

/ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈtɑd/

Forms:

α. 1500s– rhodomontade, 1600s rhadamantade, 1600s rhadamontade, 1600s rhadomontade, 1600s rhodomontad, 1600s–1700s rhodomantade.

β. 1600s rodomantade, 1600s–1700s rodomontad, 1600s– rodomontade.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rodomontade.

Etymology: < French rodomontade vainglorious brag or boast, (chiefly in plural) bravado, boastful language (1587 in Middle French) < rodomont rodomont n. + -ade -ade suffix. Compare Italian rodomontata, (now regional) rodomontada (1598 in Florio).With the α. forms compare the β. forms at rodomont n. and the β. forms at rodomontado n. and adj.

A. n.

a. A vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful, arrogant, or bombastic speech or piece of writing; †an arrogant act (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > a boast

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α.

1591 E. Aggas tr. Answeare Supplication sig. D3 The ennemy who with a great Rhodomontade or brag had wonne a suburbe.

1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. S iij^v Making Hidalgo-like Rhodomontades.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ii. 4 At the first view of so many Rhodomontades and bravings, we were in some doubt and amaze.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 29 The Theologist should be forbidden to write such Rhodomontads.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 67 The rhodomontades they uttered on the subject of their generosity and courage.

1784 F. Burney Let. 7 Dec. in Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 332 I was called away in the midst of my rhodomontade, and have lost all zest for pursuing it.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 136 (note) A species of conversation..which consisted of the most improbable rhodomontades.

1881 Littell's Living Age 19 Feb. 482 This disloyal rhodomontade was freely circulated throughout England.

1912 M. Johnston Cease Firing 403 While the hickory log blazed, and the mountain woman used snuff, Steve indulged in a rhodomontade.

1986 A. Knight Mexican Revol. (1990) II. ii. 260 In a political culture where artificial democracy was entrenched,..it would be wrong to take such rhodomontades too seriously.

β. 1601 E. Aggas tr. A. Arnauld First Sauoyan 24 in tr. True Disc. Queenes Voy. How can any man imagine, that this valiant nation..should at this day bee so degenerate and so quailed, as for a Rodomontade or Spanish brag, to abandon that which so iustly to vs doth appertaine?1612 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 128 The town was full of the 5 Challengers cartells, full of Rodomontades.1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III i. 12 Then they might have acted their Rodomontades and injuries in a higher Straine.1672 J. Dryden Heroic Plays in Ess. (1900) I. 157 The rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational as his, nor so impossible to be put in execution.1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xv. 140 They were soundly clap'd by some of the Box Ladies, to reward their sham Fights, and blustering Rodomontades.1782 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 163 We need not care for all the fervida dicta, all the rodomontades, of France and Spain.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 50 Wherever he came he pressed horses in defiance of law,..and almost raised mobs by his insolent rodomontades.1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. viii. 144 Phil used to bore me after dinner with endless rodomontades about his passion and his charmer; but my wife was never tired of listening.1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday 99 ‘Most alarming!’ said Robin who was amused by his sister's rodomontade.1992 S. Berkoff Coriolanus in Deutschland 99 Coriolanus starts with a great rodomontade of a speech that can set the hairs on your neck bristling if you have the right actor.

b. Extravagant boasting or bragging; bravado; boastful or bombastic language.

ΘΚΠ

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α.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 113 The Duke de Crouy..said by way of Rhodomontade,..he saw all the rest of the World must bow under the Spaniard.

1692 J. Edwards Farther Enq. Old & New Test. vii. 242 Other Stoicks indulged this way of Talking, this vain Rhodomontade.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 276 To see..their Rhodomontade and poetical Bravado; we need only turn to our famous Poet-Laureat.

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xiii. 243 The Spaniards are not inferior in rhodomontade and national prejudices.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 194 A profusion of barbarous epithets and wilful rhodomontade.

1892 Nation 25 Aug. 150/2 Tricoupis..has no sympathy with bluster and rhodomontade.

1912 A. E. Zimmern Nationality & Greatness ix. 217 It is..comparatively free from the rhodomontade characteristic of so much recent German professional and journalistic writing.

1924 Times 15 Oct. 10/2 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald indulged last night in some amusing rhodomontade.

1999 National Interest Fall There was certainly an element of Renaissance rhodomontade: the youthful prince..wanted to show the world that he had cojones.

β. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 209 Arrogance,..Rodomontade, affectation of Empire.a1679 Earl of Orrery Guzman (1693) 23 For all your Rodomontade, our Principals shall fight with you with any Arms.1734 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. III. vii. 449 Supplying his want of courage with rodomontade.1829 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 392 We could discern its meaning through a cloud of rodomontade.1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 9 A detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade.1928 Cent. Mag. May 47 While he is not first among the doves of peace, he is delivering more than his share of mouth-filling rodomontade.1966 R. Sheckley Mindswap 153 Beneath the man's rodomontade there had been evidence of a cheerful and sturdy spirit.1993 A. B. Brook Hard Way xxxvi. 200 Cohen's letters were replete with blustery rodomontade and polemic hyperbole.

†2. A boaster, a braggart. Cf. rodomont n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster

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1683 A. Marsh Confession New Married Couple 91 They domineer lustily with them, and play the part of a Rodomontade.

1692 E. Hickeringill Good Old Cause in Wks. (1716) II. 530 I can scarce pity that Rhodomantade, that dy'd upon the point of that Sword.

a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 90 There was a Rhadamontade that would fight with any man and bragged of his valour.

B. adj.

Of the nature of or characterized by bragging; boastful, vainglorious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful

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β.

1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 286 These bastard sons of Mars, upon whom he [sc. their General] had bestowed rodomantade words and looks.

1674 Govt. Tongue xi. 191 Whereas a modest mistake might slip undiscern'd, these Rhodomontade errors force themselves upon mens observation.

a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 661 There happened some rodomontad discourses in which he conceived himself affronted.

1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 175 Listening to the flighty and rodomontade ideas that passed his lips.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. xi. 313 He again ran on in a grotesque and rhodomontade account of the host.

1919 A. B. Jackson Man next Door 207 These instances in themselves are not edifying to our rodomontade civilization.

2003 W. Deverell Mind Games i. 9 A stirring, rodomontade sermon, urging us, as doctors of the mind, to believe in the healing powers of our own great science.

α. 1663 Triumph of Truth ii. 5 This Rhodomontade humour was not so much to be blamed in him, it being for his liberty.1670 Acct. Causes Rebellious Distempers 16 Being no Rhodomontade Story to raise a Penny, nor guilded Bush to set off bad Wine.1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. 36 All this rhodomontade popish stuff.1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 28 He has got into such a rhodomontade manner.1817 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespear's Plays 112 He is too hot and choleric, and somewhat rhodomontade.1832 S. R. Maitland Albigenses & Waldenses 13 The same rhodomontade style of special pleading.2003 J. Barrell Imagining King's Death ix. 257 The plan to seize the castle was never seriously intended: it was a ‘rhodomontade’ scheme.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rodomontadev.

Brit.

/ˌrɒdəmɒnˈtɑːd/,

/ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd/, U.S.

/ˈˌrɑdəmənˈteɪd/,

/ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈteɪd/,

/ˈˌrɑdəmənˈtɑd/,

/ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈtɑd/

Forms:

α. 1600s– rodomontade.

β. 1800s– rhodomontade.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rodomontade n.

Etymology: < rodomontade n.

intransitive. To deliver a rodomontade; to speak boastfully or bombastically; to brag; to rant. Formerly also with †away.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]

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1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 1083/1 To Rodomontade, inaniter..gloriari.

1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. iii. 31 In the mean time Lolonnois gave the Governor leave to Rodomontade, while he made merry in his Ship.

1737 Hist. Reg. 1736 No. 81. 45 They went into an Inn, where they..rodomontaded as they pleased.

1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa II. xlvii. 151 I made him rodomontade away a hundred times more than he would otherwise have done.

1818 J. Keats Let. 22 Dec. (2002) 162 Believe me I never rhodomontade any where but in your Company.

1840 W. H. Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 7 You have learnt to rhodomontade at the court of Madrid, I perceive.

1855 J. C. Stretton Woman's Devotion III. 49 How long she would have rhodomontaded in this way, Nest could not tell.

1915 J. H. McCarthy Glorious Rascal xxxii. 276 One of his hearers..considered him to be rhodomontading again.

2007 M. P. Gohres There is No Key to Happiness 49 I share this with you not to rodomontade, but to inspire you.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rodomontade
释义	rodomontaden.adj. Brit. /ˌrɒdəmɒnˈtɑːd/, /ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd/, U.S. /ˈˌrɑdəmənˈteɪd/, /ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈteɪd/, /ˈˌrɑdəmənˈtɑd/, /ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈtɑd/ Forms: α. 1500s– rhodomontade, 1600s rhadamantade, 1600s rhadamontade, 1600s rhadomontade, 1600s rhodomontad, 1600s–1700s rhodomantade. β. 1600s rodomantade, 1600s–1700s rodomontad, 1600s– rodomontade. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rodomontade. Etymology: < French rodomontade vainglorious brag or boast, (chiefly in plural) bravado, boastful language (1587 in Middle French) < rodomont rodomont n. + -ade -ade suffix. Compare Italian rodomontata, (now regional) rodomontada (1598 in Florio).With the α. forms compare the β. forms at rodomont n. and the β. forms at rodomontado n. and adj. A. n. 1. a. A vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful, arrogant, or bombastic speech or piece of writing; †an arrogant act (obsolete). 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(1842) II. 332 I was called away in the midst of my rhodomontade, and have lost all zest for pursuing it. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 136 (note) A species of conversation..which consisted of the most improbable rhodomontades. 1881 Littell's Living Age 19 Feb. 482 This disloyal rhodomontade was freely circulated throughout England. 1912 M. Johnston Cease Firing 403 While the hickory log blazed, and the mountain woman used snuff, Steve indulged in a rhodomontade. 1986 A. Knight Mexican Revol. (1990) II. ii. 260 In a political culture where artificial democracy was entrenched,..it would be wrong to take such rhodomontades too seriously. β. 1601 E. Aggas tr. A. Arnauld First Sauoyan 24 in tr. True Disc. Queenes Voy. How can any man imagine, that this valiant nation..should at this day bee so degenerate and so quailed, as for a Rodomontade or Spanish brag, to abandon that which so iustly to vs doth appertaine?1612 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 128 The town was full of the 5 Challengers cartells, full of Rodomontades.1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III i. 12 Then they might have acted their Rodomontades and injuries in a higher Straine.1672 J. Dryden Heroic Plays in Ess. (1900) I. 157 The rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational as his, nor so impossible to be put in execution.1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xv. 140 They were soundly clap'd by some of the Box Ladies, to reward their sham Fights, and blustering Rodomontades.1782 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 163 We need not care for all the fervida dicta, all the rodomontades, of France and Spain.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 50 Wherever he came he pressed horses in defiance of law,..and almost raised mobs by his insolent rodomontades.1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. viii. 144 Phil used to bore me after dinner with endless rodomontades about his passion and his charmer; but my wife was never tired of listening.1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday 99 ‘Most alarming!’ said Robin who was amused by his sister's rodomontade.1992 S. Berkoff Coriolanus in Deutschland 99 Coriolanus starts with a great rodomontade of a speech that can set the hairs on your neck bristling if you have the right actor. b. Extravagant boasting or bragging; bravado; boastful or bombastic language. 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Herbert Life (1976) 113 The Duke de Crouy..said by way of Rhodomontade,..he saw all the rest of the World must bow under the Spaniard. 1692 J. Edwards Farther Enq. Old & New Test. vii. 242 Other Stoicks indulged this way of Talking, this vain Rhodomontade. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 276 To see..their Rhodomontade and poetical Bravado; we need only turn to our famous Poet-Laureat. 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xiii. 243 The Spaniards are not inferior in rhodomontade and national prejudices. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 194 A profusion of barbarous epithets and wilful rhodomontade. 1892 Nation 25 Aug. 150/2 Tricoupis..has no sympathy with bluster and rhodomontade. 1912 A. E. Zimmern Nationality & Greatness ix. 217 It is..comparatively free from the rhodomontade characteristic of so much recent German professional and journalistic writing. 1924 Times 15 Oct. 10/2 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald indulged last night in some amusing rhodomontade. 1999 National Interest Fall There was certainly an element of Renaissance rhodomontade: the youthful prince..wanted to show the world that he had cojones. β. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 209 Arrogance,..Rodomontade, affectation of Empire.a1679 Earl of Orrery Guzman (1693) 23 For all your Rodomontade, our Principals shall fight with you with any Arms.1734 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. III. vii. 449 Supplying his want of courage with rodomontade.1829 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 392 We could discern its meaning through a cloud of rodomontade.1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 9 A detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade.1928 Cent. Mag. May 47 While he is not first among the doves of peace, he is delivering more than his share of mouth-filling rodomontade.1966 R. Sheckley Mindswap 153 Beneath the man's rodomontade there had been evidence of a cheerful and sturdy spirit.1993 A. B. Brook Hard Way xxxvi. 200 Cohen's letters were replete with blustery rodomontade and polemic hyperbole. †2. A boaster, a braggart. Cf. rodomont n. Obsolete. 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Marsh Confession New Married Couple 91 They domineer lustily with them, and play the part of a Rodomontade. 1692 E. Hickeringill Good Old Cause in Wks. (1716) II. 530 I can scarce pity that Rhodomantade, that dy'd upon the point of that Sword. a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 90 There was a Rhadamontade that would fight with any man and bragged of his valour. B. adj. Of the nature of or characterized by bragging; boastful, vainglorious. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful boastyc1300 bragc1315 boastfulc1380 great-moutheda1425 boggishc1440 avauntinga1513 windy1513 blazing1549 thrasonical1564 vauntful1590 vousty1596 braggadocian1599 self-boasting1599 braggart1604 braggartly?1611 braggadocio1615 braggeda1616 ampullous1622 rodomontado1645 vapouring1649 thrasonic1657 rodomontade1660 flounder-mouthed1663 fanfaron1670 vaunty1724 boastivea1763 Falstaffian1809 bounceable1831 jactant1839 braggadocious1853 blow-hard1855 loud-mouthed1867 flannel-mouthed1884 bull-mouthed1896 poppy-show1896 Tartarin1903 β. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 286 These bastard sons of Mars, upon whom he [sc. their General] had bestowed rodomantade words and looks. 1674 Govt. Tongue xi. 191 Whereas a modest mistake might slip undiscern'd, these Rhodomontade errors force themselves upon mens observation. a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 661 There happened some rodomontad discourses in which he conceived himself affronted. 1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 175 Listening to the flighty and rodomontade ideas that passed his lips. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. xi. 313 He again ran on in a grotesque and rhodomontade account of the host. 1919 A. B. Jackson Man next Door 207 These instances in themselves are not edifying to our rodomontade civilization. 2003 W. Deverell Mind Games i. 9 A stirring, rodomontade sermon, urging us, as doctors of the mind, to believe in the healing powers of our own great science. α. 1663 Triumph of Truth ii. 5 This Rhodomontade humour was not so much to be blamed in him, it being for his liberty.1670 Acct. Causes Rebellious Distempers 16 Being no Rhodomontade Story to raise a Penny, nor guilded Bush to set off bad Wine.1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. 36 All this rhodomontade popish stuff.1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 28 He has got into such a rhodomontade manner.1817 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespear's Plays 112 He is too hot and choleric, and somewhat rhodomontade.1832 S. R. Maitland Albigenses & Waldenses 13 The same rhodomontade style of special pleading.2003 J. Barrell Imagining King's Death ix. 257 The plan to seize the castle was never seriously intended: it was a ‘rhodomontade’ scheme. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rodomontadev. Brit. /ˌrɒdəmɒnˈtɑːd/, /ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd/, U.S. /ˈˌrɑdəmənˈteɪd/, /ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈteɪd/, /ˈˌrɑdəmənˈtɑd/, /ˈˌrɑdəˌmɑnˈtɑd/ Forms: α. 1600s– rodomontade. β. 1800s– rhodomontade. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rodomontade n. Etymology: < rodomontade n. intransitive. To deliver a rodomontade; to speak boastfully or bombastically; to brag; to rant. Formerly also with †away. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 1083/1 To Rodomontade, inaniter..gloriari. 1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. iii. 31 In the mean time Lolonnois gave the Governor leave to Rodomontade, while he made merry in his Ship. 1737 Hist. Reg. 1736 No. 81. 45 They went into an Inn, where they..rodomontaded as they pleased. 1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa II. xlvii. 151 I made him rodomontade away a hundred times more than he would otherwise have done. 1818 J. Keats Let. 22 Dec. (2002) 162 Believe me I never rhodomontade any where but in your Company. 1840 W. H. Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 7 You have learnt to rhodomontade at the court of Madrid, I perceive. 1855 J. C. Stretton Woman's Devotion III. 49 How long she would have rhodomontaded in this way, Nest could not tell. 1915 J. H. McCarthy Glorious Rascal xxxii. 276 One of his hearers..considered him to be rhodomontading again. 2007 M. P. Gohres There is No Key to Happiness 49 I share this with you not to rodomontade, but to inspire you. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1591v.1681
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