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pantopragmatic, a. and n. humorous and satirical.|ˌpæntəʊprægˈmætɪk|
[f. panto- + pragmatic.]
a. adj. Universally meddling, occupied with everything.
b. n. A ‘pantopragmatic’ person; also, in pl., a satirical name for the alleged ‘science’ of universal meddling.
1861T. L. Peacock Gryll Gr. viii, Two or three..arch-quacks have taken to merry-andrewizing in a new arena, which they call the Science of Pantopragmatics. Ibid. xxxi, There is a meeting of the Pantopragmatic Society, under the presidency of Lord Facing-both-ways. Ibid., I wonder the Pantopragmatics have not a department of cookery. 1875Contemp. Rev. XXV. 735 One or two of his contemporaries, whom he could never forbear satirizing as leaders of the Pantopragmatic and kindred movements. 1891Sat. Rev. 4 July 4/1 He was beginning one of those curious pantopragmatic tours of his. |