Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of puzzling; mystification.
Wiktionary
- n. humorous Concealment, mystification, obfuscation.
Etymologies
- Coined in translation of Rabelais' works, derived from the obsolete French metagrabouliser ("mystify"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I believe that he is an heretic; the devil take me, if I do not! he doth so villainously rail at the Mendicant Friars and Jacobins, who are the two hemispheres of the Christian world; by whose gyronomonic circumbilvaginations, as by two celivagous filopendulums, all the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Christian world; by whose gyronomonic circumbilvaginations, as by two celivagous filopendulums, all the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish”
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