单词 | pasquin |
释义 | Pasquinn. 1. The person popularly supposed to be represented by a statue in Rome on which satirical Latin verses were annually posted in the 16th cent.; the statue itself. Hence: an imaginary person to whom anonymous lampoons were ascribed; a composer of lampoons. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer > of lampoon or satire > imaginary or assumed pasquil1533 Pasquin1566 pasquil-maker1659 1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio (title) Pasquine in a traunce [It. Pasquino in estasi, L. Pasquillus ecstaticus]. A Christian and learned dialogue..wherunto are added certayne questions then put forth by Pasquine, to haue beene disputed in the Councell of Trent. 1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges f. 97v Neither the Old Comedie, nor Pasquino, nor any ruffian or Carneuall-youth in Rome. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue lxxxi A Pasquine piller erected in the despite of Loue. 1592 H. Wotton Let. 31 July in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 680 The Gabell of Sixtus's time, which Pasquin told him of. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 135 At one end of this market place, in a corner of a street opposite to a publike Pallace, is the statua of Pasquin, vpon a wall of a priuate house. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 229 This Pasquin is an old broken statue..ieering wits set vp here, and father vpon poore Messer Pasquino, their Satyrical ieasts, called from him, Pasquinades. 1686 J. Dryden Addr. Higden 2 The Grecian wits, who Satire first began, Were pleasant Pasquins on the life of man. 1711 Spectator 27 Mar. 41/1 The statue of Pasquin..with an Excuse written under it. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. 283 If Pasquin has seen wittier, he never saw more severe or less delicate lampoons. 1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 510/2 Paris shortly became a new Rome, where every citizen fancied himself a Pasquin. 1905 ‘M. Field’ Borgia ii. i. 35 The arms of the Borgia. Our Pasquin loves to bait that beast. 1940 ELH 7 214 Evolution of peculiar comic phenomena like the fool or cosmic humorist, Punches, Pasquins, etc. 1998 A. Claridge Rome 211 ‘Mister Pasquin’ was found during roadworks in 1501 at the corner of the Via della Cuccagna, having probably decorated the stadium. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > lampoon or satire bill1426 satire1509 squibc1525 pasquil1542 pasquinata1592 cockalane1596 pasquinado1600 Pasquin1611 lampoon1645 pasquinade1658 banter1695 jeu d'esprit1712 Dunciad1728 squiblet1820 squibling1884 satirette1894 spoof1958 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Pasquino, an old statue in Rome on whom all Satires, Pasquins, rayling rimes or libels are fastned and fathered. a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 53 On him, some unhappy Wit vented this Pasquin. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 371 Wrote from Rome, the French had caused a pasquin to be fixt reflecting on the pope for conniving at the protestant alliance against his eldest son. a1745 J. Swift Answer Sheridan in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 202 But enough of this Poetry Alexandrine: I hope you will not think this a Pasquine. 1841 J. W. Ord Bard ii. 151 We..shall condescend another Pasquin to indite. CompoundsΚΠ 1659 Occurr. Forraigne Parts No. 23. 314 The Pasquin-maker who had so much scandalized this whole City, dares not appear. 1834 R. S. Bayley Notitiae Ludae iii. ix. 269 The epigrammatist and pasquin maker each practised his art on the errors of poor Laurence [Echard]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pasquinv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. = pasquinade v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > express in written work or write about > satirize or lampoon billc1450 pistle1589 canvass1590 satirize1619 squib1631 pasquila1648 lampoona1657 pasquin1683 parodize1768 pasquinade1779 besquib1813 1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise Ded. sig. A3 Not..that any man delights to see himself pasquin'd and affronted by their inveterate Scriblers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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