of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
of a playful burlesque style.
1705–15; Hudibras + -tic
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Ross, now-a-days best known as the Ross of Hudibrastic memory.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
The total number of Hudibrastic couplets in Aesop Dress'd comes to only a handful: They'll give you a hundred Niceties, As Chicken Bones, boyl'd Loins of Mutton, As good as ever Tooth was put in....
From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de
See, for instance, some lines in "Hudibrastic measure," Gentleman's Magazine, vol.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
I have always thought, moreover, that the Hudibrastic aphorism is worthy of practice, because nothing can be more evident than the fact that "—He who runs away May live to fight another day."
From Fifteen Years in Hell by Benson, Luther
The one competing measure of course is the Hudibrastic octosyllabic.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John
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