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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Parody \Par"o*dy\, n.; pl. {Parodies}. [L. parodia, Gr. [?]; [?] beside + [?] a song: cf. F. parodie. See {Para-}, and {Ode}.] 1. A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty. The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's [bd]Hind and Panther[b8] was received with great applause. --Macaulay. 2. A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. [Obs.] | |
