Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a style of satirical or mock-heroic verse composed in rhymed iambic tetrameter couplets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to, or resembling the style of, ‘Hudibras,’ a satire directed against the Puritans by Samuel Butler, published in 1663; burlesque-heroic: as, Hudibrastic verse; Hudibrastic humor.
- noun A line or verse in the style of Butler's ‘Hudibras’: as, a poem composed in Hudibrastics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Similar to, or in the style of, the poem “
Hudibras ,” by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to a
style ofEnglish verse thatmocks heroic verse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ned Ward's "Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, merrily translated into Hudibrastic Verse" (1700), can scarcely be reckoned
Don Quixote 2002
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'Don't Stand So Close To Me' is a Hudibrastic paraphrase of a North American Indian folk-song in which a chief feels his ability to make lucid decisions is impaired by the presence of a beautiful niece who stands behind him during tribal councils gently stroking the back of his neck.
Zenyatta Mondatta 1980
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I have always thought, moreover, that the Hudibrastic aphorism is worthy of practice, because nothing can be more evident than the fact that
Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson
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Conveyancing is sung in Hudibrastic verse, and said in notes of pleasant prose.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. Various
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Hudibrastic lines, which have occasioned so many inquiries for their origin.
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Let the lovers of the Hudibrastic admire these _tours de force_: --
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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Becoming involved in a quarrel with a publisher, William Cobbett, he published a scathing reply in a Hudibrastic poem, "The Porcupiniad", in 1799.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Francis Hopkinson's "Battle of the Kegs," a Hudibrastic satire like
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907
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Hudibrastic rhymed epistle in nearly 400 lines, containing, with a good deal that is trivial, some striking symbolical reminiscences of his trip through Egypt, and some powerful ironic references to the caravan of
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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Folio_, "To Connecticut men studious either of Hudibrastic or solemn poetry, we look with eager eyes for the most successful specimens of the inspiration of the Muse."
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
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