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Webster 1913 Edition
Fescennine
Fes′cen-nine
,Adj.
[L.
Fescenninus
, fr. Fescennia
, a city of Etruria.] Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
– Noun.
A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fescennine
FES'CENNINE
,Adj.
FES'CENNINE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Fescennine
Fescennine
See also: fescennine
English
Alternative forms
- fescennine (obscene or scurrilous)
Adjective
Fescennine (comparative more Fescennine, superlative most Fescennine)
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Etruscan town of Fescennia
- obscene or scurrilous
- 1856 Richard Francis Burton, Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah, G. P. Putnam & Co., p20
- At this hour the seat was as in a theatre, but the words of the actors were of a nature somewhat too Fescennine for the public.
- 1977 C. John McCole, Lucifer at Large, Ayer Publishing, p108
- And when Freudian fiction becomes – as it has become in America – but an inviting wall on which to scribble Fescennine filth – that, too, is another matter.
- 1856 Richard Francis Burton, Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah, G. P. Putnam & Co., p20
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fes.kenˈniː.ne/, [fɛs.kɛnˈniː.nɛ]
Adjective
Fescennīne
- vocative masculine singular of Fescennīnus
Noun
Fescennīne m
- vocative singular of Fescennīnus
fescennine
fescennine
See also: Fescennine
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
fescennine (comparative more fescennine, superlative most fescennine)
- Obscene or scurrilous.
- 1988 James D. Simmonds, Milton Studies, Volume 6, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, p168
- As the poet decorously shows his desire to consummate the marriage, he retains the fescennine element without being crude.
- 1995 John Donne & Gary A. Stringer, The variorum edition of the poetry of John Donne: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions and Miscellaneous poems, Indiana University Press, p380-1
- “The conventional complaint over the delay in the proceedings is voiced by the poet in... [this] series of questions which include fescennine teasing of the bridal couple”
- 2003 Mark Steven Morton, The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex, Insomniac Press, p25
- For instance, I admit that this book is anacreontic, paphian, and sometimes even fescennine [...]
- 1988 James D. Simmonds, Milton Studies, Volume 6, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, p168
Translations
obscene or scurrilous
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References
- ↑ "Fescennine" - Licentious, obscene, scurrilous, Michael Quinion, World Wide Words, accessed 14/7/2010