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pan·ta·gru·elism
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pantagruelismnoun
comedy that has an underlying serious purpose; a form of satire
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pantagruelism
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua ( gar-GAN-tew-ə, French: [ɡaʁɡɑ̃tɥa]) and his son Pantagruel ( pan-TAG-roo-el, -əl, PAN-tə-GROO-əl, French: [pɑ̃taɡʁyɛl]). The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number of new and difficult words [...] into the French language".The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne, and, within a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it."Pantagruelism", a form of stoicism, developed and applied throughout, is (among other things) "a certain gaiety of spirit confected in disdain for fortuitous things" (French: une certaine gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites).
Webster Dictionary
Pantagruelismnoun
the theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule
Pantagruelismnoun
an assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose
Etymology: [From Pantagruel, one of the characters of Rabelais.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pantagruelism
pan-ta-grōō′el-izm, n. the theories and practice of Pantagruel as described by Rabelais (1483-1553)—burlesque ironical buffoonery as a cover for serious satire: empirical medical theory and practice.—adj. Pantagruel′ian.—ns. Pantagruel′ion, a magic herb allegorising fortitude, patience, industry; Pantagru′elist, a cynic who uses the medium of burlesque.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Pantagruelism in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Pantagruelism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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