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Dis heap black boy has received not less than a single very long stripe of yaller... and it runs rant up his ebberlubbin back againTo “rant,” according to the OED, originally meant “to talk or declaim within an extravagant or hyperbolical way; to make use of bombastic language; (esp. of an actor) to orate or speak in a melodramatic or grandio

However, obviously, Osiander as a gentleman in addition to a scholar is naturally opposed to ranting preachers and faith vulgarised.'There are actually five meanings mentioned in OED's entry to the adjective ranting, two of that happen to be labelled out of date. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, utilization, and quotation proof.Sensible Voc