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latrant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈleɪtɹænt/
  • /ˈleɪtɹənt/

Etymology

From Latin lātrans (“barking, ranting”), present participle of lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to latrate + -ant.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Synonym of barking, particularly (figurative) snarling, bitterly or angrily complaining.
    • Sounds, latrant, mugient and reboatory, echoed above the city’s noise as, yelping and barking, the heterogeneous pack raced down the street, while boys and girls, armed with rulers and schoolbags, manoeuvred it to a vacant allotment. 1940 June 23, “Dogs Would Not Lie Doggo Here”, in The Sunday Sun and Guardian, number 1943, Sydney, page 7:
    • Latrant, barking; as A Latrant Writer, an Author that does nothing but bark and snarl at others. [1706, Edward Phillips, edited by John Kersey, The New World of English Words, or, a General Dictionary, London: Printed for J[ohn] Philips, s.v, unnumbered page, column 1:
    • Thy care be the first the various gifts to trace The minds and genius of the latrant race. 1714, Thomas Tickell, “A Fragment of a Poem on Hunting”, in The poetical works of Thomas Parnell, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, published 1854, page 66:
    • And that the Balant and Latrant Noiſes of that ſort of People may be for ever Silenced, […] 1702, Cotton Mather, “Book VII (Ecclesarium Prælia: […])”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, page 82, column 1:
    • Thy latrant muse aye glooms sae sour; The ither day her gipsy glower 1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: […] , Dumfries: James Maxwell, page 21:
    • Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity. 1856, Lorenzo Altisonant [pseudonym; Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., Letter No. II, page 13:
    • Whoſe latrant ſtomachs oft moleſt The deep-laid plans their dreams ſuggeſt; 1737, Matthew Green, The Spleen, and Other Poems, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, […] , published 1796, page 34:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most latrant Degree=Sup lexicographic
more latrant Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

barking · particularly

latrant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈleɪtɹænt/
  • /ˈleɪtɹənt/

Etymology

From Latin lātrans (“barking, ranting”), present participle of lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to latrate + -ant.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare) One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.
    • Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite article in English, Greek, French, German,^α &c.) a. 1857, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 279:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
latrants Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

latration · latrate · oblatrant