HARANGUE, a modern French name for a speech or oration made by an orator in public.—Menage derives the word from the Italian aranga, which signifies the same; formed, according to Ferrari, from arringo,
Harbour "a just, or place of juggling." Others derive it from the Latin ara, "altar;" by reason the first harangues were made before altars: whence the verse of Juvenal, Non Languecessi velut dillans ad aram.
The word is also frequently used in an ill sense, viz. for a too pompous, prolix, or unseasonable speech or declamation.