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CIDE DICTIONARY

pasquinn. [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.
    "  [1913 Webster]
pasquinv. t. 
     To lampoon; to satiraze.  [1913 Webster]
    "To see himself pasquined and affronted."  [1913 Webster]
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