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tetralogy|tɪˈtrælədʒɪ|
[ad. Gr. τετραλογία, f. τετρα- tetra- + -λογία -logy. Cf. F. tétralogie.]
1. a. Gr. Antiq. A series of four dramas, three tragic (the trilogy) and one satyric, exhibited at Athens at the festival of Dionysus.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 158/1 He made a compleat Tetralogy (four Drama's, as the manner was, when they contested, to be presented at four several Festivals). 1840tr. C. O. Müller's Hist. Lit. Greece 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.
a1742[Warburton] Ricardus Aristarchus in Pope's Dunciad (1743) 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? 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. iv. xii, A Tetralogy of Parables. 1883St. James' Gaz. 3 Feb. 5 Wagner's ‘tetralogy’ of operas.
2. A set of four speeches. Cf. tetralogue.
1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Tetralogie (Gr.), a speaking or writing in four parts. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. II. i. ix. 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. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece v. 127 note, Discussed in Antiphon's second tetralogy.
3. Med. A set of four symptoms jointly characteristic of a disorder; chiefly with reference to Fallot's tetralogy (see Fallot).
1927[see Fallot]. 1966Wright & Summers Systemic Path. 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[see Fallot].
Hence tetraˈlogic a., of or pertaining to a tetralogy.
1889Haigh 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. |