Hudibrastic

(hi-di-bras’tik),a.andn. [ dibras + -t-ic, after enthusiastic, ete. The name Hudibras is said to have been taken from that of one of the knights of the Round Table, Sir Hugh de Bras.) I, a. Of or pertaining to, or resembling the style of, ‘‘Hudibras,” a satire directed against the Puritans by Samuel Butler, published in 1663; burlesque-heroic: as, Hudibrastic verse; Hudibrastic humor. There is nothing puffy, blustering, or Hudibrastic in his (Clement Marot’s) onslaught. W. J. Bekoff’, Applet on’s Journal, XT. Dr. Bryant was fond of exercising his talent for rhyming by throwing his thoughts into verse, and succeeded in producing some very respectable Hudibrastic lines. D. J. Hill, Bryant, p. 20. TI. ». A line or verse in the style of Butler’s “Hudibras”: as, a poem composed in Hudibrasties.