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English → English (gcide) Definition: Pasquin Pasquin \Pas"quin\, v. t. To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.] [1913 Webster] To see himself pasquined and affronted. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Pasquin \Pas"quin\, n. [It. pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.] A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. [1913 Webster] The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]