quodlibets

Of course on these occasions they devoted some of the happy hours to music, and a favourite pastime was the singing of "quodlibets" -- a kind of musical medley -- wherein portions of several well-known songs would be dovetailed together.

Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

No jokes there upon ladies and their husbands! no songs! — nothing resembling our quodlibets about horns and cuckoldom!

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In time he found out the grievous disadvantages of living in solitude with a companion who did not know how to think, and whose stock of ideas was so slight that the only common ground of talk between them was gossip and quodlibets.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

In time he found out the grievous disadvantages of living in solitude with a companion who did not know how to think, and whose stock of ideas was so slight that the only common ground of talk between them was gossip and quodlibets.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

He was very fond, when talking with men who considered themselves clever, of making jests or puns in such a manner and in such an unaffected ordinary tone of voice that they took no note of the _quodlibets_.

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

Socrates is the eternal burthen of their quillets, quodlibets, problems, syllogisms; for them he is the Ulysses of the Odyssey, that much-suffering man; or, to speak more adequately, for _them_ he is the

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

[Footnote: See Note 37] being indeed a species of emblazoning more befitting canters, gaberlunzies, and such like mendicants, whose gibberish is formed upon playing upon the word, than the noble, honourable, and useful science of heraldry, which assigns armorial bearings as the reward of noble and generous actions, and not to tickle the ear with vain quodlibets, such as are found in jestbooks. '

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

Often Moyer tosses out these quodlibets as one-liners, as Chet muses to himself or responds to the remarks of others.

CounterPunch 2010

Often Moyer tosses out these quodlibets as one-liners, as Chet muses to himself or responds to the remarks of others.

CounterPunch 2010

Again, I doubt not a jot but there be yet some of you who will say that the things aforesaid are full of quips and cranks and quodlibets and that it ill beseemeth a man of weight and gravity to have written thus.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344