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.
      
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   2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to
      reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
      
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   Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade;
        burlesque; wit; humor.
        
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