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Pantagruelism   Listen
noun
Pantagruelism  n.  
1.
The theory or practice of the medical profession; used in burlesque or ridicule.
2.
An assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose. (R.)






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"Pantagruelism" Quotes from Famous Books



... temper, still have none of the reckless buffoonery of such scenes as that between Prince Henry and the drawer, or the mad extravagances of the Merry Wives; still less of the wild topsy-turvy of the Birds or the Peace. They have not the note of true Pantagruelism. Most critics, again, would find in Swift a truculence, sometimes latent and sometimes flagrant, that would deprive him, too, of his place among these great masters of free and exuberant farce. Diderot, at any rate, must rank ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley



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