Category: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.

Pasquin Pas"quin, v. t.

Defn: to lampoon; to satiraze. [r.] To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden.