[f. LAMPOON sb.] trans. To make the subject of a lampoon; to abuse or satirize virulently in writing.
a. 1657. Lovelace, Poems (1864), 233. The noblest matrons of the isle lampoon.
1706. Farquhar, Recruiting Officer, I. i. Wks. 1892, II. 131. Suppose we lampooned all the pretty women in town, and left her out?
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 362. Thwarted in the cabinet, baited in parliament, and lampooned in public.
1822. Hazlitt, Table-t., I. vi. 125. He lampooned the French Revolution when it was hailed as the dawn of liberty by millions.
1878. Maclear, Celts, vii. 115. The bards … did not scruple to defame or lampoon any who annoyed them.
