macaronic

How To Use macaronic In A Sentence

• It was what is called a macaronic poempart English, part Latinand was an elegy on the death of somebody or other. As I Please
• Richard, if you wish to post my macaronic exercise, I have no objections whatsoever, with an understanding that I have no claim of its being a good poetry. Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb
• In the course of the conversation one of the PT crew composed a two-stanza poem in macaronic style, in which the lines of the poem are in different languages but the meter and rhyme scheme are preserved through the language shifts. Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb
• Although written primarily in English, the play is trilingually macaronic: in English, Latin, and Greek.
• The text could be in English, Latin, or a macaronic mixture of several languages.
• Humanism is often opposed to medieval scholasticism and macaronic language.
• If the macaronic inclusion of ecclesiastical Latin is too sober for your holiday, you can always set the Wayback Machine to last year's wassails. Archive 2008-12-01
• Dis- is also now often negative, to my disgust, because of confusion with the Greek dys- (as in “dysfunctional,” a macaronic horror), but earlier meant “in different directions” (the final s happily assimilates to a following consonant). No Uncertain Terms
• Humanism is often opposed to medieval scholasticism and macaronic language.
• Parceque librum non a rendu "is the kind of macaronic French and Latin which schoolboys are accustomed to write under a sketch of the borrower expiating his offences on the gallows. Lost Leaders