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Pasquin

Pas"quin\, n. [It. pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.] A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.

The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. --Dryden.

Pasquin

Pas"quin\, v. t. To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.]

To see himself pasquined and affronted. --Dryden.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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