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Webster 1913 Edition
Pantagruelism
Pan-tag′ru-el-ism
,Noun.
[From
Pantagruel
, one of the characters of Rabelais.] 1.
The theory or practice of the medical profession; – used in burlesque or ridicule.
2.
An assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose.
[R.]
Donaldson.