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▪ I. pasquil, n.|ˈpæskwɪl| Also 6 pasqual, 7 pasquell. [ad. med.L. Pasquillus, ad. It. Pasquillo, dim. of Pasquino; in F. Pasquille: see Pasquin. The L. form is known as early as 1509: see Pasquin. The Fr. appears in Les Visions de Pasquille, 1547 (Ebert).] †1. = Pasquin 1. Obs.
1533Elyot Wise Man Proheme A v, For there be Gnathos in Spayne as wel as in Grece, Pasquilles in Englande as welle as in Rome. ― Pasquil the playne A ij, Pasquille is an olde Romane, but by longe sittinge in the strete, and hering market men chat, he is become rude and homely. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 67 These two verses were written to the Pope, as worthie such a one, and sette upon Pasquillus in Roome. 1609Dekker Gvlls Horne-bk. i. (1862) 9 I'm the Pasquil's madcap that will do it. 1616R. Carpenter Past. Charge 66 Making the Pulpit often⁓times a Pasquill to ease their spleenes. 1651Weldon Crt. K. Chas. 205 The Councell Table was growne more like a Pasquil then a grave Senate. 2. A lampoon posted up in a public place; any circulated or published lampoon; a pasquinade.
1542St. Papers Hen. VIII, IX. 12 Here hathe been also after the maner of Rome, a pasqual set up upon Sainct Marques day laste, tantynge thEmperour. 1589Cooper Admon. 56 The Libeller to set out his Pasquill, raketh all things. 1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 38 They blame others for Libells and verie vnpriestly Pasquils, and yet write themselues. 1709Steele Tatler No. 92 ⁋1 All the Pasquils, Lampoons and Libels, we meet with now-a-days. 1865Wright Hist. Caricature xix. 315 The pasquils formed a body of satire which struck indiscriminately at everybody within its range. 3. attrib. and Comb., as pasquil-maker, pasquil-pulpit.
c1642A. Brome On Death J. Shute 35 Nor such as into pasquill pulpits come With thundering non sence, but to beat the drum To civil wars. 1770Baretti Journ. Genoa II. 1 They only put one in mind of the Pasquil-makers of Rome or the Monthly and Critical Reviewers of England. Hence paˈsquillic a., of the nature of a pasquil.
1833Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 66 Verse (be it heroic, be it pasquillic). ▪ II. † ˈpasquil, v. Obs. [f. prec. n.] a. intr. To compose pasquils. b. trans. To libel or satirize in a pasquil; to lampoon.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. iv. (1651) 148 Princes..are grievously vexed with these pasquelling libels and satyrs. 1643Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 268 In Holland and other places he was pasquill'd at. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 609 There wanted not some, who took occasion to pasquil it. So ˈpasquillant n., the writer of a pasquil; adj. lampooning; ˈpasquiller, the composer of a pasquil or pasquils.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1870) 204 [The character] of a gossip, backbiter and pasquillant. 1833Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 125 A Pasquillant verse. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. v. i. 14 Or Lucile's muse..Or Menips old, or Pasquillers of late. a1659Osborn Luther Vind. Wks. (1673) 408 This favour..did so work with him, and the rest of the Pasquillers of the time, that..none used the like Invectives. |