[f. the sb. Cf. F. caricaturer.]
trans. To represent or portray in caricature; to make a grotesque likeness of.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint., IV. iv. (R.). In revenge for this epistle, Hogarth caricatured Churchill under the form of a canonical bear.
1760. Lyttelton, Dial. Dead, iv. He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. App. 411. The appointed fate of the Renaissance architects,—to caricature whatever they imitated, and misapply whatever they learned.
b. transf. and fig. To burlesque.
1749. Smollett, Gil Bl., 431. It would be caricaturing the peerage to confer it on me.
1862. Goulburn, Pers. Relig., IV. vii. (1873), 307. The Faith once given to the saints is grievously caricatured.
Hence (from sb. and vb.) Caricaturable a.; Caricatured ppl. a.; † Caricaturely adv.; † Caricaturer (= CARICATURIST); Caricaturing vbl. sb.; Caricaturish a. (For pronunc. see the sb.)
1874. Spectator, 20 June, 783/2. Unquestionably seem to have something intrinsically caricaturable about him.
1886. Sat. Rev., 31 July, 170/1. The costumes, the coiffures, the furniture of 1840–1860, though among the ugliest in history, were of a dowdy and matter-of-fact rather than of a grotesque and caricaturable ugliness.
1813. Examiner, 4 April, 223/1. Those caricatured rogues which give eclat to celebrated plays.
1865. Public Opinion, 28 Jan., 104. It is the caricatured crinolines that have brought their originals into disfavour.
1759. Macklin, Love à la mode, I. i. (1793), 10. His manner … has something so caricaturely risible in it.
1758. Monthly Rev., 319. The most eminent Caracaturers of these times. Ibid. All the humourous effects of the fashionable manner of Caracaturing.
1859. Dickens, T. Two Cities, II. xiv. With beer-drinking, pipe-smoking, song-roaring, and infinite caricaturing of woe.
1819. Blackw. Mag., V. 401. Either that … they are rude or weak, caricaturish or insufficient.
