pasquin Meaning, Definition & Usage

Pas"quin noun

Etymology

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.

Definitions

1. A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.

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

Pas"quin transitive verb

Definitions

1. To lampoon; to satiraze. R.

   To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden.