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