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tragic, a. and n.|ˈtrædʒɪk|
Also 6 -icke, 7–8 -ick.
[ad. L. tragic-us, a. Gr. τραγικ-ός of or pertaining to tragedy, f. τράγ-ος goat: see -ic; but in sense associated with τραγῳδία tragedy. Cf. F. tragique.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, pertaining, or proper to tragedy as a branch of the drama; of the nature of tragedy; composing, or acting in, tragedy: opp. to comic a. 1.
1563Mirr. Mag., Collingbourne xv, Witnes theyr Satyr sharpe, and tragicke playes. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xii. 3 Yclad in costly garments fit for tragicke Stage. a1637B. Jonson Horace's Art Poetry 122 The comic matter will not be exprest In tragic verse. 1712Addison Spect. No. 315 ⁋10 The ancient Tragick writers. 1788Fitzpatrick Prol. Sheridan's ‘Critic’, The tragic Queen to please a tasteless crowd, Has learnt to bellow, rant, and roar so loud. 1827Buckham's Theatre Grks. (ed. 2) Pref. 6 The..Tragic and Comic metres. 1838Thirlwall Greece III. xviii. 79 One of these exhibitions commonly followed each tragic performance, and it was always furnished by the tragic poet himself.
†b. tragic-comedy: = tragi-comedy. Obs.
1631Mabbe (title) The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina: or, The Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea. c1650Denham Old Age 664 On the world's stage, when our applause grows high For acting here life's tragic-comedy. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. viii. §3 All might prove but a Tragick-Comedy.
c. Befitting, or having the style of, tragedy: = tragical 2.
1684Winstanley Eng. Worthies, Shaks. 345 Never any exprest a more lofty and Tragick height. a1718Rowe (J.), Bid them dress their bloody altars With every circumstance of tragick pomp. 1837Lockhart Scott xix note, Her [Mrs. Siddons'] tragic exclamation to a footboy during a dinner,..‘You've brought me water, boy, I asked for beer’. 1888A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors vi, He wasn't tragic, not a bit of it.
2. Resembling tragedy in respect of its matter; relating to or expressing fatal or dreadful events; connected with or excited by such events; sorrowful, sad, melancholy, gloomy; = tragical a. 1.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. vi. 28 My brest can better brooke thy Daggers point, Then can my eares that Tragicke History. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 6, I now must change Those Notes to Tragic. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Abbé Conti 31 July, The tragic story that you are well acquainted with. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋10 That the tragick and comick affections have been moved alternately with equal force. a1780Harris Philol. Enquiries Wks. (1841) 430 That pity and terror are the true tragic passions; that they truly bear that name, and are necessarily diffused through every fable truly tragic. 1819Keats Isabella xxxi, Into her heart a throng Of higher occupants, a richer zest, Came tragic.
3. a. Resembling the action or conclusion of a tragedy; characterized by or involving ‘tragedy’ in real life; calamitous, disastrous, terrible, fatal. (In quot. 1876, Suffering calamity, extremely unhappy or unfortunate.)
1545Joye Exp. Dan. viii. 129 b, Noble valeant princes..haue there bene, which at last..haue had a miserable tragik ende. 1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman ii. 80 The Tragick effects of this levity. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. v. (1872) 181 In these tragic days. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 294 The tragic fate of many bold men. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. 18th Cent. II. 372 Swift..is the most tragic figure in our literature. Beside the deep agony of his soul, all other suffering..is pale and colourless. 1907Verney Mem. I. 98 Throughout his short life to its tragic close.
b. tragic flaw = hamartia.
1913L. Cooper Aristotle on Art of Poetry ii. 40 For Mary, the tragic flaw of the hero, described as an ‘error of judgment’, or a ‘shortcoming’, needs immediate illustration. The single Greek word, hamartia, lays the emphasis upon the want of insight within the man, but is elastic enough to mean also the outward fault resulting from it. 1950W. Farnham Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier i. 4 In Brutus then, Shakespeare discovered the noble hero with a tragic flaw. By that discovery he made it possible for English tragedy to reach a greatness hitherto attained only by Greek tragedy. 1970English Studies LI. 235 This flaw in the Hegge Pilate..approximates very closely what is generally meant in dramatic criticism as ‘tragic flaw’, and the Hegge Pilate may be the first tragic hero in English drama.
4. Comb.: (a) expressing combination of tragic with some other quality, as tragic-comical, tragic-humorous, tragic-ironic; (b) parasynthetic, as tragic-fated.
1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R., Mountjoy (1855) 47 Whenever my father looked me in the face, it was with such a tragic-comical leer. 1902Monkshood & Gamble R. Kipling 155 Some side scene..of the great tragic-ironic. 1906Daily Chron. 13 Mar. 3/4 The punishing, in a tragic-humorous manner, of a rascally set of owners. 1908Ibid. 19 Nov. 3/2 At the time of the tragic-fated Struensee.
B. n.
1. a. A tragic actor: = tragedian 2.
1587Mirr. Mag., Ferrex i, Complayne I may with tragiques on y⊇ stage. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing vi, ‘That he is’, said Canterfield, the first tragic.
b. A tragic poet or author: = tragedian 1.
1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 69 There hath bin a great companie of Tragicks, Comicks [etc.]. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §5 (1622) 203 Whereof two Tragicks haue giuen vs two notable instances. 1737Savage Public Spirit 7 With lib'ral Light the Tragic charms the Age. 1827Buckham's Theatre Grks. (ed. 2) Pref. 5 To give the student an idea of the manner in which he is expected to read the Tragics.
2. A tragic poem or drama, a tragedy. ? Obs.
c1720Prior Written in Mezeray's Hist. France 19 The man in graver tragick known. 17..The Link in Dodsley Coll. Poems (1782) IV. 126 In epics and tragics.
3. fig. † Tragic fate (obs.); a tragic event, a disaster.
1689J. Kirkton Hist. Ch. Scot. viii. (1817) 310 This was her miserable tragick. 1857Clough Poems, etc. (1869) I. 113 Whatever comes of it—pain and grief, suicide and murder, all the tragics you can think of.
4. quasi-n. the tragic: that which is tragic; the tragic side of the drama, or of life; tragic style or manner.
1872Morley Voltaire iii. (1886) 132 Sometimes they failed in reaching the tragic, through excessive fear of passing its limits. |