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tragi-comic, a.|ˌtrædʒɪˈkɒmɪk|
[f. tragi- + comic.]
Having the character of a tragi-comedy; combining tragic with comic elements.
1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Athanasius 81 The Tragy-Comick Scene of Arsenius the Meletian Bishop. 1709Tatler No. 68 ⁋3 You have a Tragi-comick Genius. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 11 In viewing this monstrous tragi-comick scene, the most opposite passions..succeed..each other..; alternate laughter and tears; alternate scorn and horrour. 1831Southey in Q. Rev. XLIV. 276 A more tragi-comic history could not be imagined. 1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 524 Screaming in ecstasy at the tragicomic termination of their attempt.
So ˌtragi-ˈcomical a., of tragi-comic character (hence ˌtragi-comiˈcality, tragi-comic quality, or an instance of this; ˌtragi-ˈcomically adv., in a tragi-comical way). Also ˌtragi-ˌcomi-opeˈratical, -ˈpastoral adjs. (nonce-wds.), combining the qualities of tragi-comedy and opera (or pastoral).
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. xiii. Argt. (1898) 238 A *tragi⁓comiqual reaport. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 43 Some Poesies haue coupled together two or three kindes, as Tragicall and Comicall, wher-vpon is risen, the Tragi⁓comicall. 1627(title) A Tragi-Comicall History of ovr Times, vnder the borrowed names of Lisander and Calista. a1661Fuller Worthies, Leicester. (1662) ii. 129 His tragi⁓comical life, had a peaceable End. 1878H. James Europeans i, It was extremely clever, and full of a sort of tragicomical power.
1897Q. Rev. Jan. 182 His butterfly *tragicomicalities of romance.
1733J. Bramston Man of Taste 22, I was *tragi-comically got. 1902Swinburne in Q. Rev. July 25 The dissolution of a ruined household is..tragicomically set before us.
c1778Porson (title) in Daily Chron. 29 Mar. (1902) 6/7, Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire..a *tragi-comi-operatical farce.
1714Gay (title) The What d'ye call it: A *Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce. 1729Hawker (title) The Wedding: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral-Farcical Opera..The Overture, by Dr. Pepusch. |