Prosopopoeial
//pɹɒsə(ʊ)pəˈpiːəl// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Prosopopoeic.
"They glut your eares with their Prognostications, and surprising me heretofore, when by my sicknesse I was brought very low and weake, they have injuriously handled me with their Doctrines, positions, prescriptions, magistrall fopperies, and prosopopeyall gravity […]."
Example
More examples"They glut your eares with their Prognostications, and surprising me heretofore, when by my sicknesse I was brought very low and weake, they have injuriously handled me with their Doctrines, positions, prescriptions, magistrall fopperies, and prosopopeyall gravity […]."
Etymology
From prosopopoeia + -al.
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