fescenninus

fescenninus [CLadj.] 1 (as sb. m., f., or n.) fescennine verse, ribald verse sung at wedding. fascina, i. canticum nuptiale GlH F 25; favete puris puritate nuptiis, / et virginales ferte taedas, virgines. / ‥ / carmen novum pro fescenninis edite / parvamque Christo ferte Editham parvulo Gosc. Edith 47; Ord. Vit. XI 8 (v. derelinquere 3b); ~um, carmen nuptiale, quod et drama et epithalamium dicitur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 242; harum [nuptiarum] ~as docebit cedros Libani Stilbon uxoratus Map NC IV 3 f. 47. 2 ribald, satirical; b (as sb. m., sc. versus) satire. licencia ~a socios suppressis nominibus liberius lacerant W. Fitzst. Thom. prol. 9. b legitur [cf. Macrob. Sat. II 4. 21] quod Augustus in Pollionem scripserat ~os P. Blois Ep. 72. 22C. 3 (? by misinterp., as adj., w. ref. to song) of the nursery. b (as sb. f.) lullaby, nursery rhyme. quatinus me ‥ ad potum lactis, parvulorum alimoniam ~i cantus exhortatione invitaret R. Melun Sent. pref. I 41. b byssynge song, fescenina PP; a credille sange, fascennine CathA.

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