Pa-rŏd'ie or Pa-rŏd'ie-al1, a.
a. [Fr. parodique, Sp. & It. parodico, Gr. παρωδικός.] Copying after the manner of parody. Warton.
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Parody
Pär'o-dy2, n.
n. [Fr. parodie, Sp., It., & Lat. parodia, Gr. παρῳδία, from παρά, beside, and ᾠδή, a song. See ODE.]
Sense 1. A writing in which the words of an author are, by some slight alterations, adapted to a different purpose; a kind of poetical pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty; burlesque.
The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's Hind and Panther was received with great applause. Macaulay.
Sense 2. A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
Pār'o-dy3, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. PARODIED; p. pr. & vb. n. PARODYING.] [Fr. parodier, Sp. parodiar, It. parodiare.] To alter and apply to a purpose different from that of the original.
I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. Pope.