α. 1600s tragico-comoedia.
β. 1600s tragico-comedie, 1700s– tragico-comedy.
tragico-comedyn.
/ˌtradʒɪkəʊˈkɒmᵻdi/, U.S. /ˌtrædʒɪˌkoʊˈkɑmədi/ Now rare.
= tragicomedy n. (in either sense).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > combination of comical and tragic
tragico-comedy1603
tragicomedy1603
tragicomicality1830
tragi-farce1893
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a tragi-comedy
tragicomedya1586
tragico-comedy1603
tragic-comedy1631
comi-tragedy1864
tragi-comedietta1864
comico-tragedy1880
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxiii. 150 Our Dæmonopoiïa or Devill-fiction is Tragico-Comœdia, a mixture of both as Amphitryo in Plautus is.
1607 L. Lloyd (title) Tragicocomedie of Serpents.
1767 B. Thornton in Amphitryon Prologue in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies I. 7 This is the only mention made (as I believe) in any ancient author of that mixed kind of play, which is here called Tragi-comedy, or rather Tragico-comedy.
1830 Amer. Q. Rev. June 284 The style in which the tragico-comedies of that period were written.
1880 Physician & Surgeon Jan. 18 The marching and countermarching from building to building,..the repeated small fees,..the opening and examination of trunks... This tragico-comedy finally terminated and gave us time for a pleasant ride about the city.
1911 Poet Lore Spring 121 ‘The Beaver Coat’,..a tragico-comedy, depicts the life of the lower classes of a suburb of Berlin.
2003 Afr. News (Nexis) 9 June He described the whole scenario by Amnesty as a ‘tragico-comedy’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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