PASQUIL
Pas"quil, n. Etym: [It. pasquillo.]
Defn: See Pasquin. [R.]
PASQUIL
Pas"quil, v. t. [R.]
Defn: See Pasquin.
PASQUILANT
Pas"quil*ant, n.
Defn: A lampooner; a pasquiler. [R.] Coleridge.
PASQUILER
Pas"quil*er, n.
Defn: A lampooner. [R.] Burton.
PASQUIN Pas"quin, n. Etym: [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.]
Defn: A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. Dryden.