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theatric, a. and n.|θiːˈætrɪk|
[ad. late L. theātric-us, ad. Gr. θεᾱτρικός, f. θέᾱτρον theatre: see -ic. So F. † theatrique (15–16th c. in Godef.).]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of the theatre; = theatrical a. 1.
1706Steele Prol. Vanbrugh's Mistake 29 By him theatric angels mount more high, And mimic thunders shake a broader sky. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. vi. ii. (1849) 318 Two buskined theatric heroes. 1812Examiner 21 Sept. 603/1 Theatric amusements might be made objects of taxation. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. iv. (1864) IX. 183 Councils denounced these theatric performances [the Mysteries].
b. Resembling a theatre or amphitheatre in shape or formation.
1764Goldsm. Trav. 108 Its uplands sloping deck the mountain's side, Woods over woods in gay theatric pride. 1781Mason Eng. Gard. iv. 225 Two broad Piazzas in theatric curve. 1819W. S. Rose Lett. I. 27 Imagine..a city with something of a theatric form. 1819Wordsw. Malham Cove, Oh, had this vast theatric structure wound With finish'd sweep into a perfect round.
2. = theatrical a. 2.
1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 208 A poor, dull, servile, imitative, theatric set of artificial creatures, strutting about the stage of life in pompous insignificance.
3. Suggestive of the theatre; = theatrical a. 3.
1656Artif. Handsom. 168 What is there in any civill order..which doth not put on something Theatrick and pompous? 1760Walpole in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 267 It was very theatric to look down into the vault, where the coffin was, attended by mourners with lights. 1788F. Burney Diary (1876) IV. iv. 343 So theatric an attitude. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxii. 139 He was picturesque and perhaps even theatric in his dress and his bearing.
B. n.
1. In pl. = theatricals (theatrical n. 2).
1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 9 Our theatrics shall take up but a small part of our paper.
2. orig. U.S. Doings of a theatrical character; theatrical behaviour, effects, or mannerisms; theatricality.
1929W. Faulkner Sartoris i. 3 With his race's fine feeling for potential theatrics he drew himself up. 1958A. Miller Coll. Plays iii. 18 Plays..had been written for a theatrical performance, when they should have been written as a kind of testimony whose relevance far surpassed theatrics. 1964L. Hansberry in J. H. Clarke Harlem 136 The..little committees..have dragged on their particular obscene theatrics for all these years. 1972Time 2 Oct. 52/2 A desperate device intended to lend a little spine to the sponge-cake theatrics [in a film]. 1977Daily Tel. 12 July 17/6 The ‘theatrics’ of the Church are important to many Catholics and, in a way, this is what Lefebvre offers. 1983Times 24 Aug. 5/2 Today's so-called peace movement—for all its modern hype and theatrics—makes the same old mistake.
Hence theˈatricable a. (nonce-wd.), capable of being made theatric, i.e. dramatized.
1901Howells in N. Amer. Rev. CLXXII. 798 It is the subordinate affair of the actor to adapt himself to the poet's conception, and find it theatricable. |