MACARONIC • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Macaronic

... taxation. So, in Moliere's Malade Imaginaire, the only remedy is "Saignare et Purgare." But lavemens had been known to fail. What was to be done in that case? What is to be done? shrieks the Macaronic chorus—Why, of course, "Purgare et ensuita purgare." To the present government of India, this organ of administration is all in all. And it was natural to transfer this doctrine to Affghanistan. But in that they mistook the notions of the Affghans. And, in order to understand ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various