Definitions for rabelais
ˈræb əˌleɪ, ˌræb əˈleɪra·belais

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1. Rabelais, Francois Rabelaisnoun

   author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)

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1. rabelais

   François Rabelais (UK: RAB-ə-lay, US: -⁠LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, of the grotesque, and of bawdy jokes and songs. Ecclesiastical yet anticlerical, Christian yet considered by some as a free thinker, a doctor yet having the image of a bon vivant, the multiple facets of his personality sometimes seem contradictory. Caught up in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais showed himself to be both sensitive and critical towards the great questions of his time. Subsequently, the views of his life and work have evolved according to the times and currents of thought. An admirer of Erasmus, through parody and satire Rabelais fought for tolerance, peace, an evangelical faith, and a return to the knowledge of ancient Greco-Romans to dispel the "Gothic darkness" that characterized the Middle Ages. He took up the theses of Plato to counter what he regarded as the excessive Aristotelianism of medieval scholasticism. He attacked the abuses of princes and men of the Church, and opposed to them on the one hand evangelical humanist thought, and on the other hand popular culture, bawdy, "joking", marked by the taste for wine and games. Rabelais thus manifested a humble and open Christian faith, far from any ecclesiastical weight. While he shared with emergent Protestantism a critical view of scholasticism and monasticism, his views led John Calvin to attack him in 1550. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics consider him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel, tales with their giant characters, heroic-comic parody, epics and novels of chivalry, but which also prefigure the realist, satirical and philosophical novel, and are considered to be one of the first forms of the modern novel. His literary legacy is such that the word Rabelaisian has been coined as a descriptive inspired by his work and life. Merriam-Webster defines the word as describing someone or something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism".

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1. rabelais

   Rabelais is a name, specifically referring to François Rabelais, a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, scholar of Greek and Latin, and monk. He is known for his satirical and bawdy tales of the fictional giants Gargantua and Pantagruel, which are considered as classics of world literature and important works of humanist philosophy. The adjective "Rabelaisian", which describes someone or something that is marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism, is derived from his name.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rabelais in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rabelais in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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