0 a strong criticism of someone or something, especially in a speech:
Kagan's philippic was published on Feb. 5, 2003, just 10 days before Europe saw the largest political demonstration in its history.
He regales us instead with a philippic against number, a philippic in which literary flourishes and Hegelian tradition are intermixed.
A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis.
One person's heresy is another's orthodoxy - the tamest discourse may be heard as a thunderous philippic.
