单词 | comedial |
释义 | comedialadj. Now somewhat rare. Of, relating to, or characteristic of comedy; = comic adj. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > comedy comical?a1475 comic1567 comedical1600 comedic1639 comedial1662 low comedy1814 Thalian1864 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 1033 In themselves indeed..[the Physitians] were plainly ridiculous, and Comedial. 1855 Harper's Mag. Nov. 826/2 The voices have a reality and life-likeness which is not always found in their..tragic or comedial utterances. 1885 E. R. Hope Through Gorse iv. 36 This time it was no joke; there were no comedial winks. 1908 C. W. Wallace Children of Chapel 168 Or did he simply find good comedial material here ready for further development? 1929 Sewanee Rev. 37 449 I use the term ‘pleasure’ in a sense that will include the tragic as well as the comedial emotions. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada v. iv. 578 The verse translations..were especially liable to distend Van's face in a grotesque grin which made him look..exactly like a Greek comedial mask. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1662 |
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