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filiation

Part of Speech: noun

One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock.

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macaronic

Part of Speech: Noun

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1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni ( originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

Part of Speech: noun

1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

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Thereupon I quoted a Macaronic verse by Merlin Coccaeus. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
It was this latter propensity which had generated the anomalous macaronic dialect, of which we have already spoken as a characteristic circumstance in the social features of literary Germany during the first half of the eighteenth century. - "Biographical Essays", Thomas de Quincey.
Presentation Day Songs, June 14, 1854. Some amusing anecdotes are told, such as the well- known one about the lofty dignitary's macaronic injunction, " Exclude canem, et shut the door"; and another of a tutor's dismal flunk on faba. - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.

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