单词 | tragico-comic |
释义 | tragico-comicadj. Now rare. = tragicomic adj. Cf. tragico-comedy n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy > and comedy tragicomical1567 comico-tragical1577 tragicomic1637 tragi-farcical1789 comico-tragic1827 tragico-comical1828 tragico-farcical1828 tragico-comic1832 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 959/1 Outleaps old Nicholas..and after Act First of the tragico-comic farce, proclaims, [etc.]. 1855 Harper's Mag. June 18/2 The imagination of our readers may picture the paddling up the river, the floundering through the jungle..and all the tragico-comic events that marked the transit across this narrow strip of land. 1942 Isis 34 40/1 The tragico-comic story of Typhoid Mary marks a most interesting episode in the career of William Park. 2003 D. R. Kelley Fortunes of Hist. i. 22 Jenisch's answer..is tempered and tragic, or tragico-comic. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1832 |
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