| Satire (satire) |
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| n. | (?; in Eng. often (?); 277) |
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| Sat"ire |
| [L. satira, satura, fr.
satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various kinds of
fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr.
satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis,
enough: cf |
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to
reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private
morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of
Juvenal.
Keeness and severity of remark; caustic
exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
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