Meaning of "hudibrastic" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HUDIBRASTIC

After Hudibras, poem (1663–68) by Samuel Butler.

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUDIBRASTIC

hudibrastic  [ˌhjuːdɪˈbræstɪk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUDIBRASTIC

Hudibrastic is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HUDIBRASTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Hudibrastic is a type of English verse named for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, published in parts from 1663 to 1678. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic verse structure. Instead of pentameter, the lines were written in iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is the same as in heroic verse, but Butler used feminine rhyme for humor. The first fourteen lines of Hudibras illustrate the verse form: When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. The rhyme of "swear for" with "wherefore" and "ecclesiastic" with "stead of a stick" are surprising, unnatural, and humorous. Additionally, the rhyme of "-don dwelling" with "a colonelling" is strained to the point of breaking, again for humorous effect.

Definition of hudibrastic in the English dictionary

The definition of hudibrastic in the dictionary is mock-heroic in style.

TRANSLATION OF HUDIBRASTIC

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUDIBRASTIC»

Discover the use of hudibrastic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hudibrastic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Bigotry - A Satire in Hudibrastic Verse - By the Author of ...

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Thomas Pyne, 2011

Parson Dash; Or, A Rap at Ritualism in Hudibrastic Verse

Erasmus Holiday. Parson Dash; or, A rap at ritualism in Hudibrastic verse Erasmus Holiday Front Cover.

Erasmus Holiday, 1899

Homunculus: or, the character of Mezereon, the High-German ...

Van Hugo Gasper LUNATUS (pseud.) L 1 U J Cdnd who can 'hat account that Man a Foot, "Who/et: himself upfor a Factioua 'Tool 3 Tinfase ill 'Principles into the rPeople, - And build the Church, by pufling down the Steeple? - vYet, Great ...

Van Hugo Gasper LUNATUS (pseud.), 1715

Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-modern

The travesty lowers a particular work by applying a jocular, familiar, undignified treatment, and the Hudibrastic poem uses the same procedure on more general matter, the difference being one of particular and general. The parody mimics the  ...

Margaret A. Rose, 1993

The Porcupiniad: A Hudibrastic Poem. in Three Cantos. ...

Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Mathew Carey, 2012

A Hudibrastic Address to Opposition

This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.

William Burton, 2011

The Monthly Register, Magazine, and Review, of the United States

Wherefore, I'll lay a half a dollar, That I'm no gentleman, nor scholar, If I don't prove, that Hudibrastic, Which is to me as good as a stick, Is not the same as dog- grel-verse. My proofs for which I will rehearse ; That you may see as plain's a poker, ...

‎1807

Bigotry; a Satire, in Hudibrastic Verse, with Notes ...

Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Phillips George, 2013

The Formidable Triumvirate; Or, the Malignant Club in the ...

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Archibald Bruce, 2010

The Pedagogue's Disaster, a Hudibrastic Tale Founded on a ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Anonymous, 2010