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metagrobolize, v. humorous.|mɛtəˈgrɒbəlaɪz|
Also 7–8 -grabolise, -ize.
[ad. obs. F. metagraboulizer (Rabelais) ‘to dunce vpon, to puzzle, or (too much) beate the braines about’ (Cotgr.).]
trans. a. To puzzle, mystify. b. To puzzle out. So metaˈgrobolism, mystification.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xix, I have been these eighteen dayes in metagrabolising this brave speech. a1693Ibid. iii. xxii, The Autonomatick Metagrobolism of the Romish Church. Ibid. xxvi. 212, I find my Brains..metagrobolized and confounded. 1788H. Clarke Sch. Candidates (1877) 10 My prolegomena to a public speech which I had been a whole synodical month in matagrabolizing [sic]. 1899Kipling Stalky 119 Come to think of it, we have metagrobolised 'em. |