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• Hudibrastic
  Hudibrastic

  adjective

  of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
• hudibrastic
  hudibrastic

  adjective

  mock-heroic in style

Hudibrastic

American  

[hyoo-duh-bras-tik, yoo-] / ˌhju dəˈbræs tɪk, ˌju- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.

2. of a playful burlesque style.

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noun

1. a Hudibrastic couplet or stanza.

hudibrastic British  

/ ˌhjuːdɪˈbræstɪk /

adjective

1. mock-heroic in style

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Other Word Forms

• Hudibrastically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of Hudibrastic

1705–15; Hudibras + -tic

Example Sentences

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Hudibrastic

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 Luther Benson

The catholic Ward, in his singular Hudibrastic poem of "England's Reformation," in some odd rhymes, has characterised it by a naïveté, which we are much too delicate to repeat.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli

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 Jean de La Fontaine

There is great Hudibrastic vigour in these lines; and those on the doctors are also very terse.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge

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 William Dunn Macray