prosopopoeial
See also: prosopopœial
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editFrom prosopopoeia + -al.
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editprosopopoeial (comparative more prosopopoeial, superlative most prosopopoeial)
- Prosopopoeic. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13:
- 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 […].
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