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▪ I. † paˈrodic, a.1 Math. Obs. rare. [ad. Gr. παροδικ-ός passing, f. πάροδος a passing, a passage: see -ic.] Applied to any one of the series of degrees or powers of the unknown or variable below the highest that occurs in an equation.
1684T. Baker Geometr. Key 18 Of the Construction..of Cubic Equations, affected under no Parodic Degree; or of Quadrato-quadratic, affected under the first Parodic Degree. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, A Cubick Equation where no Term is wanting; but having all its Parodick Degrees. 1775Ash, Parodic, regularly ascending or descending as the indices of the unknown quantity in adfected equations. So † paˈrodical a.1 Obs. = prec.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 336 All Magnitudes under the Power proposed, are called Parodical to the Power. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II. s.v., Parodical Degrees in an Equation in Algebra. ▪ II. parodic, a.2|pəˈrɒdɪk| [ad. Gr. παρωδικ-ός burlesque: see parody n.1 and -ic.] Of the nature of a parody, burlesque.
1828–32in Webster. 1873Wagner tr. Teuffel's Hist. Rom. Lit. II. 583 A parodic poem in derision of Pan. 1962D. Lessing Golden Notebk. iv. 529 The word correct had an echoing parodic twang. 1974C. A. Patrides Eng. Poems George Herbert 9 Herbert looked beyond the Bible for parodic purposes. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 27 H. B. Richardson..follows Meyer-Lübke in suggesting escuerzo ‹ scorteum, ‘made of leather’, meaning in 1544c ‘toad’; this is possible, given the parodic context (the mock planctus for Urraca). So paˈrodical a.2 = prec.
1774T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry lviii. (1840) III. 343 This version [Drant's Horace] is very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical. 1832Examiner 227/1 Profane, parodical muse of Hone, Be pleased to keep your distance! |