It's Wednesday again, which means another installment of Shakespearean Imagination!
The word for today is another Hamlet gem,
noun
- A period of ranting; a tirade.
verb
- Speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way
Synonyms as a verb: rave – harangue – spout – bluster – bellow – cry – declaim
Synonyms as a noun: tirade – rhetoric – diatribe – bluster
First seen as a verb in Shakespeare's Hamlet (written 1600 - 1601). The full text of the play may be found here.