Philippic: Definition and part of speech

Philippic

  1. n. Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.
  2. n. Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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