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tragedize, v.|ˈtrædʒɪdaɪz|
[f. tragedy + -ize: cf. harmon-ize, etc.]
1. trans. To act or perform as a tragedy; fig. to do or carry on tragically; in quot. 1593, to treat tragically, subject to a tragic fate.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 54 Like tragicke Seneca, I should tragedize my selfe, by bleeding to death in the depth of passion. 1599― Lenten Stuffe 47 The nurse..cowring on the backeside whiles these things were a tragedizing. 1623[see tragedized]. 1734Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 1/3 As woeful a tragedy as ever was tragedized on the British stage. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 736 This assuredly not less tragical tragedy than any that ever was tragedized by a company of tragedians.
2. intr. To perform as a tragedian; fig. to act or speak in tragic style.
1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans IV. 105 If we do spend this money we can..tragedize for more. 1889Farrar Lives Fathers II. xiii. 14 Oh air and Oh virtue!—for I will tragedise a little! [tr. Greg. Naz. Ep. v, More tragico exclamabo].
3. trans. To convert into a tragedy; to dramatize in tragic form.
1754D. Garrick Let. 31 July (1831) I. 57 Not like those paltry blasts of art employed in raising storms in a tea-cup, such as tragedizing trivial or even ludicrous situations. 1811British Press 19 Aug., The Comedy of Errors, tragedized. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 177 Modern critics, aping the nicety of Athens, which forbade the tragedising of recent history, may think [etc.].
Hence ˈtragedized ppl. a., ˈtragedizing vbl. n.; also ˌtragediˈzation, the action of tragedizing.
1623Cockeram, Tragidized, killed. 1780T. Francklin tr. Lucian's Works I. 390 Several of them..fell insensibly into the tragedizing vein. 1796Sporting Mag. VII. 329 The tragedization of Edward the Black Prince. 1813Theatrical Inquisitor II. 182 Ye fair, an Amateur before you view, Whose love of tragedising sprung from you. |