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- noun The use of the
Hudibrastic style.
Etymologies
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Hudibrastic + -ics
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Examples
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Maggot, "is composed in hudibrastics, with a diction obviously Butlerian, and it is followed by facetious poetic dialogues and by Pindarics of the
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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