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histriˈonical, a.
[f. as prec. + al.]
1. = prec. adj. 1.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xviii. vii. 117 In lieu of histrionicall actours and players. 1787Sir J. Hawkins Life Johnson 74 This supposed abuse of histrionical liberty. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. iii. §3 In the Saxon canons..a.d. 960, it is ordered that no priest shall..exercise the mimical or histrionical art.
2. = prec. adj. 2.
1560Becon New Catech. Wks. 1844 II. 300 It was become deadly sin to minister the holy communion without these scenical, histrionical, and hickscorner-like garments. a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 414 This scenical, theatrical, histrionical godliness. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 102 They [the Inquisition] are so histrionical in their ceremonies, as if they made a sport of barbarousness, that they cite the dead men three several days to appear. |