† theatryn.
Obsolete.
= theatre n.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. viii. 128 Or lyk Orestes, son of Agamemnone On theatreis, in farcis mony one.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. vi. 7 A playing place wes markit on the ground, Sic as that clepit bene a theatry.
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Civ The monument of your vertues being..aduaunced to the height of the highest theatrey in the worlde.
1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvii. 121 The throne of tryall and theatrie [v.rr. trettie, theatre] trew Is ffor to reigne.
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