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Pantagruelist|pæntəˈgruːəlɪst|
[a. F. pantagruéliste: or f. as prec. + -ist.]
An imitator, admirer, or student of Pantagruel, or of Rabelais.
1611Cotgr., Pantagrueliste, a Pantagruellist; a merrie Greek, faithfull drunkard, good fellow. (Hence in Blount 1656, Phillips 1658, Bailey 1721.)1834Southey Doctor (ed. 2) I. 175 In humour however he was by nature a Pantagruelist. Ibid. 178. 1847 Lowell Lett. I. 130 Had I mixed more with the world than I have, I should probably have become a Pantagruelist. 1886Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 251 Peacock was a Pantagruelist to the heart's core.
Hence Pantagrueˈlistic, -istical adjs. = Pantagruelian a.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 317 In a work Pantagruelistical they would be..out of place. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N.Y.) VII. 319 A very absurd and indecorous work of a pantagruelistic kind. |