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Definition of Parodistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parodistic
Literary usage of Parodistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"This introduction of the motive may possibly be interpreted from the parodistic
point of view, if we assume that the child accepts the story of the stork ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... on the Stationers' Registers till 1596. and does not appear to have been
actually published till 1597- Its title seems to suggest a parodistic allusion ..."
3. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Its title seems to suggest a parodistic allusion to that of the same author's
Endimion, or the Man in the Moone. of which, as will be immediately seen, ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1885)
"... most amusing thing in the volume is a series of parodistic variations on the
theme of " Home, Sweet Home," in the manner of Swinburne, Bret Harte, Pope, ..."
5. International Perspective in Criticism: Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve by Gustav Pollak (1914)
"... who are so apt to turn everything into jest, find pleasure in the mere sound
of words and the syllabic rhythm, and thus lose in a sort of parodistic ..."
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