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Pantagruelian, a. and n.|pæntəgruːˈɛlɪən|
[f. Pantagruel, the name given to the last of the giants in Rabelais + -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or appropriate to, Pantagruel, represented by Rabelais as a coarse and extravagant humorist, dealing satirically with serious subjects.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. 223 The Most Certain, True and Infallible Pantagruelian Prognostication. For the Year that's to come, and every and aye. 1839Fraser's Mag. XX. 521 The liberality, ability, and Pantagruelian zeal of Theodore Martin of Edinburgh. 1883F. W. Potter tr. Fr. Celebrities ii. 113 The Pantagrulian chef-d'œuvre, ‘L'Ami Fritz’.
B. n. = Pantagruelist.
1899W. E. Henley in Nutt's Circular Apr. 2 Rabelais..had been dead a full century,..ere Sir Thomas Urquhart..best of Pantagruelians and rarest of Scotsmen, produced (1653) his amazing rendering of Books I and II.
So Pantagruˈelic [F. pantagruélique], -ˈgrueline adjs. = prec. A.; Pantagruˈelically adv.
c1804Douce in Bibl. Cornub. (1878) II. 869/1 An antiquarian hash..under the whimsical appellation of ‘the Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall’ pantagruelically surveyed by John Whitaker, B.D. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 111 Call you this writing Pantagruellically? 1857Lawrence Guy Livingst. xxxi. 304 A German philosopher..(eating and drinking all the while Pantagruelically). 1882Traill Sterne iv. 34 Pantagruelic burlesque. 1882Daily News 2 Jan. 5/2 A Pantagrueline prognostication for 1882. |