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We find in the issue for March 19th, 1711, a correspondent desires Addison to be “very satyrical upon the little muff” that was then fashionable amongst men.

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William

The Nature of Comic Poetry being entirely satyrical, it busies itself more in exposing what we call Caprice and Humour, than Vices cognizable to the Laws.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.

A satyrical romance.—"Daniel changed a monarch into this bull, and I have changed this bull into a god!"

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

This is the only way I can account for his having sometimes carried his satyrical Strokes farther, than, I doubt, a true and laudable Satyrist would have thought justifiable.

From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Cibber, Colley

Yours by Mr. Read was received, in which I find you allude to the "severe and satyrical language" of mine in a former letter.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Thompson, Slason