LAMA • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Lama

... panegyrics, and merely by his ipse dixit to treat, as contemptible, what he has not intellect enough to comprehend, or soul to feel, without assigning any reason, or referring his opinion to any demonstrative principle;—thus leaving Shakespeare as a sort of grand Lama, adored indeed, and his very excrements prized as relics, but with no authority or real influence. I grieve that every late voluminous edition of his works would enable me to substantiate the present charge with ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge