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Juvenal, n.2|ˈdʒuːvənəl|
Anglicized form of the cognomen of the Roman satirist Decimus Junius Juvenalis, used gen. to designate a satirist.
1592Greene Groats W. Wit sig. F1, With thee I ioyne yong Iuuenall [sc. Nashe], that byting Satirist. 1693Dryden tr. Juvenal's Satires p. vii, I might find in France, a living Horace and a Juvenal, in the person of the admirable Boileau. 1841I. D'Israeli Amenities of Lit. III. 132 Jonson, the Juvenal of our drama. 1885Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (ed. 17) 469/1 The English Juvenal. John Oldham... The Juvenal of Painters. William Hogarth. 1902Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 3/2 The art of satire is dead in England... The Juvenals of Fleet-street are no more. |