| 单词 | fescennine verses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFescennine verses A. adj. esp. in Fescennine verses. Pertaining to or characteristic of Fescennia; usually in a bad sense, licentious, obscene, scurrilous. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > ribald or scurrilous foulOE ribaldya1438 ribaldousc1440 villainous1470 ribald?a1500 ribaldious?1518 ribaldry1519 ribaldish?1533 rabulous1538 reprobriousa1539 ribaldrous1565 scurrile1567 profane1568 swearing1569 ribaldly1570 scurrilous1576 tarry1579 Fescennine verses1601 scogginly1620 ribaldrious1633 rotten in one's head1640 Billingsgate1652 promiscuous1753 blackguarding1789 blue1832 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [adjective] > licentious or pornographic Fescennine verses1601 Sotadic1716 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 443 Wanton Fescennine ceremonies. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lxxv. 160 in Wks. (1640) III We..dare, not aske our wish in Language fescennine. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 11 Jan. A merry Oration in the Fescennine manner. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 265 To repeat a certain number of fescennine verses. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 252 A rude Fescennine license. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe (1982) xii. 176 To almost any sort of artist seriously inclined the sirens' unsupported song becomes boring after a time, seems to turn to mere Fescennine piping. A song or verses of a licentious or scurrilous character. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > licentious or pornographic poem ithyphallic1614 Fescennine1624 Sotadic1645 priapics1865 pornogram1936 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. i. i. i. 335 Menander..did..write Fescennines, and lasciuious songs. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. Rule 5 §1 I haue seene parts of Virgil changed into impure fescennines. < as lemmas |
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