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(intransitive, transitive, rare) To engage in persiflage; to banter..
We talked and persifflated all the way to London; and the idea of her will help me to a good chapter, in which I will make Pendennis and Blanche play at being in love, such a wicked false humbugging love, as two blase London People might act, and half deceive themselves that they were in earnest.
In later school stories you get Marriott and Jimmy Silver putting their feet up and simply persiflating.
We shall later see, that he used the Bible (Samson series) for his fight against his Philistine in-laws, and, according to Coppier, to persiflate Rabbi Saul Levi Mortiera, who had cursed Spinoza out of the temple.
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Persiflate means (intransitive, transitive, rare) To engage in persiflage; to banter..
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We talked and persifflated all the way to London; and the idea of her will help me to a good chapter, in which I will make Pendennis and Blanche play at being in love, such a wicked false humbugging love, as two blase London People might act, and half deceive themselves that they were in earnest.
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