Hudibrasticadj.n.
/hjuːdɪˈbrastɪk/ a. In the metre or after the manner of Hudibras, the celebrated mock-heroic satirical poem of Samuel Butler published in 1663–78; burlesque-heroic.
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Hudibrastic1712
1712 London Gaz. No. 4939/3 Merrily translated into Hudibrastick Verse.
1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 1 July There is great Hudibrastic vigour in these lines.
a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 147 A didactic poem of a Hudibrastic character, full of shrewd and pithy phrases.
b. absol. or as n. Hudibrastic language, verse, or style.
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ragman's rew1542
iambic1579
Hudibrastic1758
sirvente1819
1758 J. Ellis (title) The canto added by Maphaeus To Virgil's twelve books of Æneas... Done in English Hudibrastic.
1775 J. Jekyll Let. 24 Oct. in Corr. (1894) 56 He must indite Hudibrastics to Onslow.
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Hudiˈbrastically adv.
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Hudibrastically1873
1873 D. Masson Drummond of Hawthornden xvii. 388 The Anti-Covenanters or Malignants are described, Hudibrastically.
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