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comico-|ˈkɒmɪkəʊ| combining form of L. cōmic-us, Gr. κωµικ-ός, as in comico-cynical, comico-didactic, comico-prosaic, comico-tragedy, comico-tragic, comico-tragical (cf. tragi-comedy, tragi-comic). Also in humorous nonce-wds., as comico-cratic (after aristocratic); comicoepy (after orthoepy), comic speaking; comicography (see -graphy), comic writing.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 8 As some princes in other countries haue made their liues Comico-tragical. 1820Edin. Rev. XXXIV. 290 In what he calls a comico-prosaic style. 1831Crayons fr. the Commons 83 Till all his comicoepy's expended. 1831Southey in Q. Rev. XLV. 427 The idiosyncratic, democratic, cosmocratic, comicocratic Jeremy that he [Bentham] is. 1833― Lett. (1856) IV. 336 The first scene was the most tragi-comic or comico-tragic that it was ever my fortune to be engaged in. 1835― in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. VI. 270 Cryptography, or what might more properly be called in Dovean language, comicography. 1847De Quincey Wks. (1862) VII. 51 Wieland had a touch of the comico-cynical in his nature. 1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iv. 204 In the mock-heroic or comico-didactic vein. 1880Cornh. Mag. XLII. 659 A comico-tragedy was enacted at Mrs. Ellis's concerning this very plate. |