[f. as prec. + -ING1.] Ridiculing by grotesque imitation or travestying. (Chiefly gerundial.)
1677. W. Sherlock, Answ. Pamph. by T. Danson, 70. For lying and slandering, and burlesquing Religion are certainly much greater impieties, than wearing a Surplice, or using a sober Form of Prayer.
1699. Farquhar, Love & Bottle, I. i. His imitation was downright burlesquing it.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, viii. 247. Burlesquing the gods was always a capital resource of the comic poets.
