macaronic verse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It was what is called a macaronic poempart English, part Latinand was an elegy on the death of somebody or other. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
Vittorio Vettori (d. 1763), and Folengo, the first of the so-called macaronic writers; the jurist Piacentino (twelfth century). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Trivia question: Which Beatles song was macaronic?. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Trivia question: Which Beatles song was macaronic? dave mabus. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
So I decided to try my hand in writing a short macaronic doggerel. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The concept of a macaronic verse was new for me as well as for Matt. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Some of the triplets appear to me very poor, and hardly above macaronic. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850] Reference
This is where I first caught the macaronic arts; and where Mafelina made me a paunchy poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Baldo] Reference
I cannot express in words how disspointed I was to find that “macaronic” did not refer to poetry sung to the tune of “Macarena”. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In 1517 he published, under the pseudonym Merlin Cocaio, the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo, later enlarged and elaborated. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Baldo] Reference
If the macaronic inclusion of ecclesiastical Latin is too sober for your holiday, you can always set the Wayback Machine to last year's wassails. From Wordnik.com. [Drede ye nought, sayd the aungell bryght] Reference
As to overall “quality,” it is of course a primitive doggerel, but its “macaronic” properties are there, and it was very easy to concoct it. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Richard, if you wish to post my macaronic exercise, I have no objections whatsoever, with an understanding that I have no claim of its being a good poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A similar story is told of the Duke of Vendome, who answered in this sort of macaronic Latin the classical expostulations of a German convent against the imposition of. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
Derivative, macaronic, i.e. in a confused or mixed state. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
The piece concludes with the ceremonial in macaronic Latin. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Folengo wrote a macaronic poem: that is to say, one in which. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
The abbé spoke a macaronic Spanish, which he had learned in South. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar or Nothing] Reference
His hand may be recognised in a macaronic poem, written in Greek and. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
A similar story is told of the Duke of Vendome, who answered in this sort of macaronic. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
Panurge, for whom the suggestion was derived from the macaronic poet Folengo, is the fellow of Shakespeare's. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
The Intendant in great voice led off a macaronic verse of Molière, that had often made merry the orgies of Versailles. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
As they came near to the place, he espied Tickletoby afar off, coming home from mumping, and told them in macaronic verse. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
Grace was said by the Professor of Divinity, in a macaronic Latin, which I could by no means follow, only I could hear it rhymed, and. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference
How hopelessly mixed-up and macaronic, how undignified in what ought to be its big moments and how pompous in so many of its pettinesses!. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
"The other day he said to me in his macaronic Italian. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar or Nothing] Reference
What is macaronic verse?. From Wordnik.com. [October 2007] Reference
No, that would be “macarenic,” not “macaronic”. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The Requirements: Poem must be macaronic (dual-language ... isn't my vocabulary impressive?. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
Which is followed by a patch of macaronic prose-poetry to which I refer the titillated reader (Part One, Chapter 27. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
I like these macaronic airs. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892] Reference
With this may be compared the macaronic lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Social History of Smoking] Reference
‘villa girasole, a macaronic dream’. From Wordnik.com. [Build Blog » Design and Cooking] Reference
"macaronic" verses. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
macaronic verse, poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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