\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.