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draˈmatical, a. (n.) [f. as prec. + -al1.] = dramatic a. 1. (Now rare.)
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. ii. (R.), Dramaticall, or representative [poesy] is as it were, a visible history. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. iv. (1821) 221 The whole dramatical series of things. 1711Addison Spect. No. 101 ⁋7 A Dramatical Performance written in a Language which they did not understand. 1854Fraser's Mag. L. 591 Fletcher was the dramatical parent of Congreve. †B. n. pl. = dramatic B. Obs. rare.
c1826Moir in Wilson's Wks. (1855) I. 198 Then bid Bryan Procter beat To dramaticals retreat. |