单词 | rabelaisian |
释义 | Rabelaisianadj.n. A. adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or resembling Rabelais or his satirical writings, which are noted for their earthy humour, their parody of medieval learning and literature, and their affirmation of humanist values; bawdy, vulgar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer Lucianical1561 Xenophontean1593 Sidneian1599 Anastasian1621 Theophrastical1662 Menippean1693 Varronian1693 Herodotean1748 Shaftesburian1752 Cervantic1760 Alfredian1762 Swiftian1762 Richardsonian1763 Pepysian1765 Rabelaica1768 Rabelaisian1769 Johnsonian1775 Radcliffian1801 Southeyan1817 Lucianic1820 Xenophontic1822 Thucydidean1826 Walter Scottish1827 Voltairean1833 Juvenalian1839 Dickens-like1841 Dickensian1842 Voltairish1842 Hazlittian1844 Theocritean1846 Dickensish1849 Ruskinian1850 Ruskinesque1854 Dickensy1855 Dickenesque1856 Macaulayesque1856 Ruskinite1856 Thackerayan1857 Ruskinese1863 Macaulayish1865 Walpolian1867 Dickensesque1868 Voltairianized1872 Baconian1874 Balzacian1874 Morrisian1879 Isidorian1882 Poe-like1882 Peacockian1886 Poe-esque1886 Zolaesque1886 Macaulayan1887 Bunyanesque1888 Fieldingesque1888 Junian1888 Meredithian1888 Tacitean1890 Hugoesque1893 Hardyesque1894 Kiplingesque1894 Shawian1894 Maeterlinckian1895 Dickinsonian1896 Stevensonian1897 Austenish1898 Austenian1901 Leverish1903 Pateresque1903 Trollopian1903 Malorian1904 Shavian1904 Brontesque1905 Chestertonian1905 Jamesian1905 Leveresque1905 Jacobean1906 Carrollese1907 Hardyan1907 Stendhalian1907 Turgenevian1908 Ouidaesque1909 Galsworthian1912 Poeish1915 Paterian1918 Sitwellian1920 Conradian1921 Mallarméan1924 Theophrastian1924 Wildean1924 Pirandellian1925 Proustian1925 Flaubertian1926 Wodehousian1926 Joycean1927 Stracheyan1927 Theophrastic1928 Yeatsian1928 Lawrentian1930 Firbankian1931 Melvillean1931 Leavisite1934 Runyonesque1934 Kafka1936 Woolfian1936 Twainian1938 Rilkean1939 Audenesque1940 Hemingwayesque1942 Brontëan1945 Kafkaesque1947 Leavisian1947 Morrisan1949 Orwellian1950 Faulknerian1951 Hemingwayan1951 Greeneian1952 Arnoldian1953 Thurberesque1954 Tolkienian1954 Beckettian1958 Hemingwayish1959 Nabokovian1959 Pinteresque1960 Pinterish1960 Vernean1960 Waughian1960 Bradleian1961 Gravesian1961 Kafkian1962 Jules Vernean1964 Snovian1966 Pinterian1967 Lucianesque1969 Tolkienesque1970 Thoreauvian1975 Stubbsian1979 the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language) > referring to specific writer Sotadic1716 Rabelaica1768 Rabelaisian1857 1769 J. H. Stevenson Wks. L. Sterne V. Pref. clvi He decently lived a becoming ornament of the Church, till his Rabelaisian spirit..immersed him into the gaieties and frivolities of the world. 1817 Lady Morgan France ii. viii. 167 He talked of recovery,..and still emitted some of those sparks of Rabelaisian humour, attributed to him by contemporary wits. 1857 Sat. Rev. 2 May 404/2 The publications of the two Brunets on Rabelæsian bibliography. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 132 [Skelton] was truly Rabelaisian before Rabelais. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xlvii. 274 They were alone in the hotel but for a fat Frenchwoman of middle age, a Rabelaisian figure with a broad, obscene laugh. 1951 H. Pearson Dizzy xvii. 270 He talked in a sweet and gentle voice,..which contrasted curiously with the ogre-like body, the Rabelaisian and recklessly frank things he said. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 419 Once people know about the diet, they'll feel that you can't really enjoy yourself until you eat and drink to Rabelaisian excess. B. n. A student or admirer of Rabelais or his writings; a person with a Rabelaisian attitude to life. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer Tacitist1656 Johnsonian1778 Richardsonian1778 Miltonist1830 Voltairean1842 Dickensite1849 Shakespearolater1875 Cervantist1881 Rabelaisian1882 Dickensian1885 Peacockian1886 Zolaist1886 Meredithian1892 Hardyan1896 Janeite1896 Stevensonian1897 Kiplingite1898 Hazlittian1902 Austenite1903 Balzacian1905 Shavian1905 Boswellian1908 Jacobite1909 Thackerayan1909 Trollopian1910 Wellsian1916 Proustian1919 Sitwellian1920 Pirandellist1925 Thoreauvian1927 Walpolian1927 Austenian1928 Stendhalian1928 Poeist1929 Morrisite1936 Joycean1938 Wodehousian1939 Lucianist1940 Woolfian1944 Leavisite1946 Jamesian1954 Yeatsian1954 Leavisian1955 Lawrentian1957 Lawrentian1959 Beckettian1965 Orwellian1971 1882 T. Hardy Let. 17 May (1978) I. 106 We Rabelaisians have not as yet reached the state of enlightenment which distinguishes you Noviomagians, & do not include ladies in our company. 1893 Athenæum 10 June 729/3 Modern Rabelaisians, anxious concerning the mission of the master. 1932 B. Rascoe Titans of Lit. 175 There were Rabelaisians or Pantagruelists in Rabelais' lifetime and there were anti-Rabelasians. 1958 T. Wilkins Clarence King xvii. 296 The Rabelaisians gathered around the dinner table half a dozen times a year, sometimes at the Saville Club, with Lord Houghton presiding. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 May x19 Some people may be offended by grossness... Kids, though, are natural Rabelaisians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1769 |
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