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Philippic
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What's The Definition Of Philippic?
[n] a speech of violent denunciation
Synonyms | Synonyms for Philippic: broadside | tirade Related Terms | Find terms related to Philippic: abuse | address | after-dinner speech | allocution | assailing | assault | attack | berating | bitter words | blackening | chalk talk | contumely | debate | declamation | diatribe | eulogy | execration | exhortation | filibuster | forensic | forensic address | formal speech | funeral oration | harangue | hard words | hortatory address | inaugural | inaugural address | invective | jawing | jeremiad | onslaught | oration | pep talk | peroration | pitch | prepared speech | prepared text | public speech | rating | reading | recital | recitation | revilement | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | set speech | speech | speechification | speeching | talk | talkathon | tirade | tongue-lashing | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address | vilification | vituperation See Also | declamation | denouncement | denunciation Philippic In Webster's Dictionary \Phi*lip"pic\, n. [L. Philippicus belonging to Philip,
Philippic, Gr. ?, fr. ? Philip, ? fond of horses: cf. F.
philippique.]
1. Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes,
the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.
2. Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in
acrimonious invective.
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