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Scriblerian, n. (and a.)|skrɪˈblɪərɪən|
[f. the name of Martinus Scriblerus, a character invented by members of the Scriblerus Club (see below); cf. scribbler1 + -ian.]
A member of the Scriblerus Club formed c 1713 by Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and others, who produced the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (publ. 1741) in order to ridicule lack of taste in learning. Also as adj.
1935L. M. Beattie John Arbuthnot iv. 271 Swift's experience as a Scriblerian must have affected the turn given to numerous observations in Gulliver. Ibid. 276 In its humor for humor's sake it is typically Scriblerian. 1950C. Kerby-Miller Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 1 The activities which may be labeled Scriblerian spanned a period of almost three decades. Ibid. 31 The Scriblerians began collecting material of all sorts. 1969P. Köster in Philol. Q. Apr. 207 Although the subtlety of this satiric segment may have been caviare to all but the refined taste of Arbuthnot's fellow Scriblerians, the ‘String of Epithets’ could not be ignored by any but the grossest ear. 1977― in R. A. Wisbey Computer in Literary & Linguistic Res. iv. 133 Unfortunately.., there are no examples of Scriblerian collaboration in which the shares of Arbuthnot and Swift are already known. |