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satirize, v.|ˈsætɪraɪz|
Also 7 satyrise, 7–8 satyrize, 8–9 satirise.
[ad. F. satiriser (= Sp., Pg. satirizar), f. satire: see satire n. and -ize.]
1. intr. To write satires; to assail some one or something with satire. Now only as absol. use of 2; formerly † const. on, upon.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. v, What? when the man that first did satyrise, Durst pull the skin ouer the eares of vice;..shall I forbeare? 1620R. Brathwait Five Senses 129 They shew the vnworthinesse of their Nature in Satyrizing vpon the weaker. 1703De Foe Let. to Mr. How in Misc. 337, I find you no more talking to me, till you come to Page 25, where you are pleased to Satyrize upon my Title and Preface. 1728Young Love Fame i. 34 Shall authors smile on such illustrious days, And satirise with nothing—but their praise? a1734North Exam. iii. x. Concl. (1740) 692 It is as bad a Fault in History to panegyrise, as to Satyrise without Reason. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxii. (1841) I. 211 Satirizing on the blindness and folly of mankind. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxxviii, He being paid to satirise or flatter. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 217 It was easy to satirise and misrepresent.
2. trans. To assail with satire; to make the object of, or to expose to, satire or censure; to describe or ridicule in a satirical manner.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Kicksey Winsey Wks. ii. 36, I will Satyrize, Cauterize, and Stigmatize all the whole kennell of curres that dare [etc.]. 1676Glanvill Seasonable Reflect. 153 Those Wits..that Satyrize humane nature. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 4 Pamphlets..pretend to..Satyrize the Frankness of Tories [etc.]. 1727Pope Th. Var. Subj. in Swift's Wks. 1755 II. i. 226 It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. 1782J. Warton Ess. Pope vii. II. 61 Chaucer takes every opportunity of satyrizing the follies of his age. 1803Sir J. Mackintosh Def. Peltier Wks. 1846 III. 259 If you should believe that it is ascribed to Jacobinical writers for the sake of satirising a French Jacobinical faction. 1870Disraeli Lothair viii, The parasite..had been on the point of satirising his hostess, but, observing the quarter of the wind, with rapidity went in for praise. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iv. 108 Alcaeus exercised his poetical talent in satirizing Pittacus.
b. fig. To be a ‘satire’ upon. (Cf. satire n. 1 c.)
1798Roscoe tr. Tansillo's Nurse i. Notes i. (1800) 7 This detestable custom, which outrages nature, and satirizes humanity, is..more frequent in Italy than in this country.
Hence ˈsatirized ppl. a.
1793D'Israeli Cur. Lit. II. 276 Satirists, if they escape the scourges of the law, have reason to dread the cane of the satirised. |