pasquin Meaning, Definition & Usage

Pas"quin noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.
    The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. Dryden.
Pas"quin transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To lampoon; to satiraze. R.
    To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden.

Webster 1913