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prosopopœial

prosopopœial is the obsolete typography of prosopopoeial.

Meaning of prosopopoeial

Adjective

prosopopoeial (comparative more prosopopoeial, superlative most prosopopoeial)

  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 […].1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13

Forms of prosopopœial

comparativemore prosopopœial
superlativemost prosopopœial

Questions about prosopopœial

What is prosopopœial the obsolete typography of?
Prosopopœial is the obsolete typography of prosopopoeial.

Words near prosopopœial in the dictionary

  1. prosopopoeiae
  2. prosopopoeial
  3. prosopopoeias
  4. prosopopoeic
  5. prosopopœia
  6. prosopopœial
  7. prosopopœias
  8. prosopopœic
  9. prosopopœiæ
  10. prosopylar
  11. prosopyle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prosopopœial (page history and authors); prosopopoeial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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