MACARONIC • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Macaronic

... to the place, he espied Tickletoby afar off, coming home from mumping, and told them in macaronic verse: ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... French. It is maintained that these Latin sermons, though prepared in the language of the Church, were delivered, when addressed to lay audiences, in the vernacular, and that those composite sermons in the macaronic style, that is, partly in French, partly in Latin, which appear in the thirteenth century and are frequent in the fifteenth, were the work of reporters or redactors among the auditory. On the other hand, it is argued that both Latin and French sermons were pronounced as each might seem suitable, ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden