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macaronic, a. and n.|mækəˈrɒnɪk|
Also 7 makeronick, 8 maccaronic.
[ad. mod.L. macarōnic-us = It. († macaronico) maccheronico, f. († macaroni) maccheroni macaroni.
The word seems to have been invented by Teofilo Folengo (‘Merlinus Cocaius’) whose ‘macaronic’ poem (Liber Macaronices) was published in 1517. He explains (ed. 2, 1521) that the ‘macaronic art’ is so called from macaroni, which is ‘quoddam pulmentum farina, caseo, botiro compaginatum, grossum, rude, et rusticanum’.]
A. adj.
1. Used to designate a burlesque form of verse in which vernacular words are introduced into a Latin context with Latin terminations and in Latin constructions. Also, applied to similar verse of which the basis is Greek instead of Latin; and loosely to any form of verse in which two or more languages are mingled together. Hence of language, style, etc.: Resembling the mixed jargon of macaronic poetry.
1638Sir J. Beaumont in Jonsonus Virbius 12 He Latin Horace found..Translated in the Macaronicke toung, Cloth'd in such raggs as [etc.]. 1711Drumm. of Hawth.'s Wks., Life 5 For diverting himself and his Friends, he wrote a Sheet which he called Polemo-Middinia; 'Tis a sort of Macaronick Poetry, in which the Scots Words are put in Latin Terminations. 1778Johnson 14 Apr. in Boswell, Maccaronick verses are verses made out of a mixture of different languages. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. vi. §31 I. 519 Maillard..whose sermons, printed if not preached in Latin, with sometimes a sort of almost macaronic intermixture of French. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. ii. i. 90 The macaronic poet Folengo. 1898Stevenson St. Ives 236 Grace was said..in a macaronic latin.
†2. Of the nature of a jumble or medley. Obs.
1611(title) Coryats Crambe, or his Colwort Twise Sodden, And Now serued in with other Macaronicke dishes, as the second course to his Crudities. 1806J. Dallaway Obs. Eng. Arch. 222 Those Travellers who have seen the new buildings of Edinburgh and Glasgow will look on the architecture of Bath, as belonging to the maccaronick order. 1816G. Colman Br. Grins, Lament. xiv. (1872) 271 My coarse, macaronic style may here and there excite a smile.
3. Pertaining to a macaroni. rare—0.
1828–32Webster, Macaronic, pertaining to or like a macaroni; empty; trifling; vain; affected.
B. n.
1. a. Macaronic language or composition. b. pl. Macaronic verses.
a1668Denham Dialogue 33 You that were once so œconomick, Quitting the thrifty style Laconick, Turn Prodigal in Makeronick. 1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 31 When some of his Party mounts the Desk and declaims their Maccaronicks. 1727Bailey vol. II, Macaronicks [among the Italians], a sort of Burlesque Poetry made out of their Language, and the Scraps and Terminations of divers other. 1839Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 267 note, Folengo..sat down for the rest of his life to write Macaronics. a1864Lucy Aikin in Mem. etc. 77 Our own people were turning Scotch without knowing it. We began to allow the macaronic of the Edinburgh Review for actual English!
†2. A jumble or medley. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Macaronique, a Macaronick; a confused heape, or huddle of many seuerall things. |