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Definition of Satires

Satire
Satire Sat"ire (?; in Eng. often ?; 277), n. [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. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and cf. Saturate.] 1. 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. 2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.

Meaning of Satires from wikipedia

- six books of verse satires targeting everything from literary fads to corrupt noblemen. Although Donne had already circulated satires in m****cript, Hall's...
- Look up satires in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Satires are cultural texts in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule...
- convenience of readers. Book I: Satires 1–5 Book II: Satire 6 Book III: Satires 7–9 Book IV: Satires 10–12 Book V: Satires 13–16 (Satire 16 is incompletely preserved)...
- Satire VI is the most famous[according to whom?] of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English...
- to refer to satires in prose (cf. the verse Satires of Juvenal and his imitators). Social types attacked and ridiculed by Menippean satires include "pedants...
- Political satire is a type of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics. Political satire can also act as a tool for advancing political...
- well as Bill Maher's Real Time.[citation needed] In Britain, several news satires have been created, most famously the works of Chris Morris. Shows such...
- restarted in 2010 SatireWire is a news satire website. Based in Connecticut and founded by Andrew Marlatt, the site aimed its satire at politics, business...
- B. Satire I-2 is excluded. First book of Satires, with notes (all in English). R. M. Millington 1869. Retrieved 20 September 2010. Epodes, Satires and...
- huge solo success." —The Telegraph, “The day that sparked the satire boom”. The satire boom was the output of a generation of British satirical writers...