'Pasquin' definitions:
Definition of 'Pasquin'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pasquin'
From: GCIDE
- Pasquin \Pas"quin\, v. t. To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- To see himself pasquined and affronted. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]