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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Car·i·ca·ture n.
 1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
 2. A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.]
    The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature.   --I. Taylor.
    A grotesque caricature of virtue.   --Macaulay.