Definition of Fescennine

1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.

Definition of Fescennine

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ancient Etruscan town of Fescennia ¹

2. Adjective. obscene or scurrilous ¹

3. Adjective. Obscene or scurrilous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fescennine

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fescennine

fervidest
fervidities
fervidity
fervidly
fervidness
fervidnesses
fervor
fervorous
fervors
fervour
fervourous
fervours
ferys
feræ naturæ
fes
fescennine (current term)
fescue
fescue foot
fescue poisoning
fescues
fesh-fesh
fesh fesh
feshschrifts
fesnyng
fesnyngs
fess
fess point
fess points
fess up

Literary usage of Fescennine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"There are others who employ in epigrams, rhymes, and verses the old trifling banter, and with fescennine license freely pull their comrades to pieces, ..."

2. A Smaller History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of by William Smith, Eugene Lawrence (1889)
"These fescennine Songs were rude dialogues, in which the country people assailed and ridiculed one another in extempore verses, and which were introduced as ..."

3. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... this kind were the fescennine songs, the Saturae, the Mimi, and later on the ... fescennine ..."

4. The Egyptian Sketch Book by Charles Godfrey Leland (1874)
"An Antique fescennine Play. THE first thing that astonishes the stranger in Egypt, especially if he comes from England, is the weather. ..."

5. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"authors, on the subject of the satiric poetry of the Romans. Casaubon traces its early history in the fescennine verses, ..."

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