stage-playingn.
Playing on the stage as an actor; play-acting.
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action1540
acting1590
stage-playing1597
interluding1612
play-acting1633
histrionisma1682
theatrics1807
histrionics1824
mumming1861
histrionicism1870
stage play1872
Thespianism1914
1597 in Englische Studien 63 345 Wheras yor highnes said Subiectes..haue of longe tyme vsed and professed the Arte of Stageplayinge.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 151 Edward Allin..having gotten his wealth by Stage-playing, converted it to this pious use.
1823 J. Gillies tr. Aristotle Rhetoric iii. i. 366 Stage-playing and rhetorical elocution are things highly natural.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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- to play the buggane with a person
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