单词 | tragedian |
释义 | tragediann. 1. A writer, esp. a playwright, who composes a tragedy or tragedies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of tragedy tragedian?c1400 tragedya1464 tragedy writer1552 tragic1594 tragedist1802 tragedianess1822 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. vi. l. 2125 A tregedien [?c1425 Cambr. Ii.3.21 tragedyen, L. tragicus] þat is to sein a maker of dites þat hyȝten tregedies. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 71 (MED) When þat Paule had take þe kyng of Perse This Poule vpon hym wepid for pure pitee; Wiche crieth alle tragedenus [a1450 Balliol tragidenus, a1500 Douce tradigiens, McClean tragedeynes, New Coll. Oxf. tragedienus, ?a1500 Harl. 43 trachedienus] verse [L. Quid tragoediarum clamor aliud deflet]. 1525 T. Rychard Walton's Bk. Comfort sig. E viii As a tragedyen in hys dyte Not causeles thus cryeth in a fable. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xxx. sig. D3v The Greeke Tragedian Sophocles. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 165 Under this curled marble..Sleepe rare Tragedian Shakespeare, sleepe alone. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 258 What the lofty grave Tragœdians taught In Chorus or Iambic. View more context for this quotation 1703 Divine Soul xii. 90 Æschylus a noted Greek Tragedian. 1792 Country Spectator 4 Dec. 70 I had read with rapture both the ancient and modern Tragedians. 1803 Monthly Mirror Oct. 264 Wherever the stage is evacuated, the act is closed. This rule is, very generally, observed by the French tragedians; but the English writers..seldom pay any regard to it. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 6 The dramas of the Greek tragedian Æschylus. 1916 Dial June 525/1 ‘The Scarlet Letter’, in which Hawthorne proved himself a mighty tragedian. 2001 A. Lyttelton in A. R. Ascoli & K. von Henneberg Making & Remaking Italy i. 33 The great tragedian Alfieri had been less successful than Schiller in depicting the atmosphere of Philip II's court. 2. An actor who performs in a tragedy or tragedies, esp. one who specializes in tragic roles. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor in specific type of play comedy player1550 tragedy player1552 comediant1568 tragic1577 tragedian1590 comedian1603 comic1619 interludera1627 pastorista1627 tragicomediana1627 tragedy actor1690 low comedian1740 tragedy man1784 exodiary1793 farcer1813 monopolylogist1830 stock actor1839 beneficiaire1841 monologuist1853 monologist1858 burlesquer1869 opera-bouffer1870 low comedy1885 knockabout1887 farceur1889 folk-player1936 1590 E. Daunce Briefe Disc. Spanish State 40 Philip of Macedonia..inioyned one Neoptolemus (a tragedian of great name) to recite some poeme before composed. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H2 The Tragedian that represents his person. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 330 Ham. What Players be they? Ross...The Tragedians of the Citty. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 60 The well-lung'd Tragedians Rage. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 40. (advt.) Mr. Powell..is excellently form'd for a Tragœdian. 1741 D. Garrick Let. 24 Nov. (1963) I. 32 I am resolv'd..to be a player... I shall turn out..ye Best Trajedian..in England. 1812 M. R. Mitford Let. 1 July in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 200 No man can be a perfect tragedian who is not likewise a good actor in the higher branch of comedy. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 9 Nov. 3/3 Mr. Clarke, a celebrated tragedian,..performed the part of Hamlet last evening. 1901 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 6/1 It is common for tragedians to shut themselves up in their dressing-rooms between the acts of a play. 1998 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 10 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 10/4 Does anyone remember when Robin Williams was funny? Now,..it seems he wants to be a great tragedian, the next millennium's Laurence Olivier. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > inflicter of a tragic fate tragedian1596 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > unfortunate person > victim of a tragic fate tragedian1596 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which > inflicter of a tragic fate tragedian1596 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlv. 216 The Tragedies, and Tytles too, of English Dukes did cease, Which Thomas, Duke of Norffolke, laste Tragedian, did increase. 1631 R. Johnson Tom a Lincolne (ed. 6) ii. viii. sig. Nv The Blacke Knight stayed from his desperate resolution, and from a bloody tragedian, became the recouerer of his brothers life. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of tragedy tragedian?c1400 tragedya1464 tragedy writer1552 tragic1594 tragedist1802 tragedianess1822 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 657 Was there to be a virtual non-imprimatur in force against our songstresses, romance-inditresses, tragedianesses, sonneteeresses? 1855 N. P. Willis Rag-bag 338 We have a new..tragedian-ess, who has put the boxes into fits by coming on the stage without a—bustle! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1400 |
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