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rigmarolic en · ADJ

Etymology

From rigmarole + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Characteristic of rigmarole.
    • An essentially floral diction pregnates every sentence and every phrase, and the theme has been conveyed in a rigmarolic manner. 1977, Diwan Kirpa Ram, Gulabnama of Diwan Kirpa Ram:
    • "What is Poetry?" notwithstanding Leigh Hunt's rigmarolic attempt at answering it, is a query that, with great care and deliberate agreement beforehand on the exact value of certain leading words, may, possibly, be settled to the partial satisfaction of a few […] 1836, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia: