tetralogyn.
/tɪˈtralədʒi/ 1.
a. Ancient Greek History. A series of four dramas, three tragic (the trilogy) and one satyric, exhibited at Athens at the festival of Dionysus.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > series of dramas > ancient Greek
tetralogy1656
trilogy1836
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 6 He made a compleat Tetralogie (four Drama's, as the manner was, when they contested, to be presented at four severall Festivalls).
1840 G. C. Lewis tr. K. O. Müller Hist. Lit. Anc. Greece I. xxiv. §2 In the several tetralogies, however, the satyrical drama must have been lost or perhaps never existed.
b. Hence, Any series of four related dramatic or literary compositions.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > related series
trilogy1661
tetralogy1743
tetralogue1820
triology1837
quadrilogy1856
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > series of dramas
trilogy1661
tetralogy1743
tetralogue1820
1743 W. Warburton Ricardus Aristarchus in A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) p. xxxi May we not then be excused, if for the future we consider the Epics of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, together with this our poem, as a complete Tetralogy, in which the last worthily holdeth the place or station of the satyric piece?
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. iv. xii A Tetralogy of Parables.
1883 St. James's Gaz. 3 Feb. 5 Wagner's ‘tetralogy’ of operas.
2. A set of four speeches. Cf. tetralogue n.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > speeches > set of four speeches
tetralogy1661
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Tetralogie (Gr.), a speaking or writing in four parts.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 163 They [speeches of Antiphon] are in the form of tetralogies, each tetralogy containing a speech and a reply of the plaintiff and the defendant.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece v. 127 (note) Discussed in Antiphon's second tetralogy.
3. Medicine. A set of four symptoms jointly characteristic of a disorder; chiefly with reference to Fallot's tetralogy (see Fallot n.).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > set of symptoms
syndrome?1541
symptomatology1798
symptomology1868
symptom-complex1897
symptom-group1897
triad1899
tetralogy1927
1927 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 3 85 A case of pulmonary stenosis, dextroposition of the aorta, and septal defects (not strictly Fallot's tetralogy) in a man who lived to be fifty-two.
1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. ii. 75/2 The tetralogy..consists of pulmonary stenosis.., ventricular septal defect, displacement of the aorta to the right,..and right ventricular hypertrophy.
1970 New Scientist 26 Mar. 625/1 Techniques and results for the treatment of Fallot's tetralogy—a particularly difficult type of blue baby with which to deal.
Derivatives
tetraˈlogic adj. of or pertaining to a tetralogy.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > involving abnormal growth or misshapen
monstruousc1425
misgrowna1450
monstrous1530
abortive1587
tetralogic1889
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [adjective] > series of ancient Greek dramas
trilogical1867
tetralogic1889
trilogic1889
1889 A. E. Haigh Attic Theatre 27 But although the generic terms trilogy and tetralogy were of relatively late origin, it was customary at a much earlier period to give a common name to groups of plays composed on the tetralogic system.
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