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▪ I. farcical, a.1|ˈfɑːsɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or belonging to farce; of the nature of farce.
1716Gay What d'ye Call it (ed. 3) Pref., They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are actually in nature. 1744Akenside Let. to Dyson Poems (1845) 276 A Dutch tragedy..farcical beyond anything in Aristophanes. 1818Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 4 A farcical and operatic cast. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. vi. 65 The Comedy of Errors is Shakespere's one farcical play.
2. Resembling farce; extremely ludicrous; that is matter only for laughter; absurdly futile.
1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 63 Vice and farcical folly. 1796Campaigns 1793–4 I. i. ix. 83 Fine farcical shew and parade. 1821Edgeworth Mem. I. 69 My farcical marriage and more farcical divorce. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VI. xvi. iii. 162 Nor is Death a farcical transaction.
Hence ˈfarcically adv., in a farcical manner. ˈfarcicalness, farcical quality.
a1779Langhorne (T.), Images that are farcically low. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney I. 54 That disposition to treat high and serious subjects farcically. 1864Webster, Farcicalness.
▪ II. farcical, a.2|ˈfɑːsɪkəl|
[f. farcy + -ic + -al1.]
Pertaining to the farcy.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. i, I wish..that every imitator had the farcy..and that there was a farcical house, large enough to hold..them. 1847Youatt Horse xv. 317 A mare had been the subject of farcical enlargements. |