macaronic

• Macaroni , probably from old Italian maccare, to bruise, to batter, to pester ; Derivative, macaronic , i.e. in a confused or mixed state (applied to a jumble of languages).' —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3
• Songs, premiered in 2005, uses mostly an English translation of the Canticum Canticorum, with macaronic snippets of the text in other languages, as well as excerpts of the intense spiritual poetry of St. John of the Cross in English translation. —  Ionarts
• Here are a few such "macaronic" verses Célébrons la naissance Nostri Salvatoris_, |56 Qui fait la complaisance Dei sui Patris Cet enfant tout aimable In nocte mediâ Est né dans une étable De castâ Mariâ Mille esprits angéliques Juncti pastoribus Chantent dans leur musique Puer vobis natus Au Dieu par qui nous sommes Gloria in excelsis Et la paix soit aux hommes Bonae voluntatis Qu'on ne soit insensible Adeamus omnes A Dieu rendu passible Propter nos mortales Et tous, de compagnie Deprecemur eum Qu'à la fin de la vie Det regnum beatum_. —  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
• How hopelessly mixed-up and macaronic, how undignified in what ought to be its big moments and how pompous in so many of its pettinesses I told my husband to-day that Poppsy and I were going back to Casa Grande. —  The Prairie Child
• Germany wrote a macaronic jargon, in which French and Latin made up —  Biographical Essays

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