How To Use Macaronic In A Sentence
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It was what is called a macaronic poempart English, part Latinand was an elegy on the death of somebody or other.
As I Please
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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.
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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.
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Although written primarily in English, the play is trilingually macaronic: in English, Latin, and Greek.
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The text could be in English, Latin, or a macaronic mixture of several languages.
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Humanism is often opposed to medieval scholasticism and macaronic language.
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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.
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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
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Humanism is often opposed to medieval scholasticism and macaronic language.
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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
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Language issues focus on the return of phonetics, purged from Soviet Ukrainian orthography by Russification, and on the macaronic Russo / Ukrainian surzhyk.
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The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The hybridisation is typically trilingual in the northern Italian macaronic poets involving Latin, Italian, and Po Valley dialects.
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The war is everywhere and real, our terrors threatening to perfect us, the technologies of our desire extending into networks too complex for anything but unhinged and macaronic fiction even to hint at.
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Mark Wendland's simple scenery works tidily, and Gabriel Berry's blend of Shakespearean and modern costumes has a macaronic charm.
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An illustration to the 16th-century macaronic poem ‘Baldus’ shows the Muses eating gnocchi the size of northern dumplings; but this may be a joke.
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The concept of a macaronic verse was new for me as well as for Matt.
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The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples).
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The demise of the original macaronic verse is due precisely to the success of the Italian humanists in their philological recuperation of classical Latin.
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Vittorio Vettori (d. 1763), and Folengo, the first of the so-called macaronic writers; the jurist Piacentino (twelfth century),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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macaronic verse
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I cannot express in words how disspointed I was to find that “macaronic” did not refer to poetry sung to the tune of “Macarena”
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