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单词 tragedy
释义

tragedyn.

Brit. /ˈtradʒᵻdi/, U.S. /ˈtrædʒədi/
Forms:

α. late Middle English targedye (probably transmission error), late Middle English tegedie (transmission error), late Middle English tegerte (transmission error), late Middle English tegrede (transmission error), late Middle English tragedeis (plural), late Middle English trajedi, late Middle English traladie (transmission error), late Middle English treaide (probably transmission error), late Middle English trede (probably transmission error), late Middle English tregedie, late Middle English tregedy, late Middle English tregedye, late Middle English treiadie, late Middle English treiardy, late Middle English treide (probably transmission error), late Middle English–1500s tragide, late Middle English–1600s tragedie, late Middle English–1600s tragedye, late Middle English–1600s tragidie, late Middle English– tragedy, 1500s tragideies (plural), 1500s tragyde, 1500s tragydee, 1500s tragydies (plural), 1500s–1600s tradgedy, 1500s–1600s tragady, 1500s–1600s tragaedie, 1500s–1600s tragede, 1500s–1600s tragedi, 1500s–1600s tragidy, 1500s–1600s tragidye, 1500s–1600s tragoedie, 1500s–1600s tragoedye, 1500s–1700s tragoedy, 1600s tragaedi, 1600s tragaedy, 1600s tragiedy, 1600s–1700s trajedy; Scottish pre-1700 trageddie, pre-1700 tragede, pre-1700 tragedie, pre-1700 tragidie, pre-1700 tragoedie, pre-1700 trigide, pre-1700 trigidy, pre-1700 trygidie, pre-1700 1700s– tragedy.

β. late Middle English tragetrie, late Middle English tregedrye, late Middle English tregetrye, late Middle English treiedrye.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French tragedie; Latin tragoedia.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French tragedie, tregedie (French tragédie ) medieval narrative or narrative poem dealing with sorrowful or disastrous events (c1300 in Old French), classical or Renaissance verse drama written in an elevated style and dealing with the downfall or death of the protagonist (c1370; the senses ‘tragic event or series of events’ and ‘genre of drama or literature which consists of tragedies’ are not paralleled in French until later than in English: 1552 and 1553 respectively), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin tragoedia tragic play, art of writing such plays, (mock) tragic performance, (in plural, with reference to style) heroics, histrionics, in post-classical Latin also hymn sung at a sacrifice in ancient Greece (1503 in the passage translated in quot. 1546 at sense 7), rigmarole, rumpus (a1517 in a British source) < ancient Greek τραγῳδία tragic drama, tragic play, any serious poetry, in Hellenistic Greek also outward grandeur, pomp < τραγῳδός member of the tragic chorus, performer of tragedy, (plural) tragedy or performance of a tragedy (perhaps < τράγος he-goat (see tragus n.) + ᾠδή ode n., after ῥαψῳδός rhapsode n.; perhaps so called because a he-goat was offered as a prize in the earliest contests for writing tragedy) + -ία -y suffix3. Compare Catalan tragèdia (15th cent.), Spanish tragedia (c1280), Portuguese tragédia (15th cent.), Italian tragedia (beginning of the 14th cent.). The Latin noun was also borrowed into other Germanic languages; compare Middle Dutch, Dutch tragedie, German Tragödie (15th cent., in early use with Latin inflectional endings), Swedish tragedi (1550).The semantic motivation of the Greek word has been variously explained, and some even dispute the connection with ‘goat’. Compare G. F. Else in Hermes (1957) 85 17 ff. In sense 3 (which is not paralleled in either French or Latin) apparently influenced semantically by tragedian n. 1. The β. forms probably result from association with words in -ry suffix.
1.
a. A medieval narrative or narrative poem, written in an elevated style and dealing with sorrowful or disastrous events, typically the downfall or death of a powerful or important person. Opposed to comedy n.1 2a.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > tragic
tragedy?c1400
tragical1572
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. ii. l. 885 Þe criinges of Tragedies... Tragedie is to seyne a dite of a prosperite for a tyme þat endiþ in wrechednesse.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 83 Or ellis first tragedies [c1415 Corpus Oxf. tregedys, c1415 Lansd. Tregedise, c1425 Petworth tregedies] wol I telle.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1786 Go litel bok, go litel myn Tregedie.
c1460 J. Lydgate in Minor Poems (1911) i. 73 (MED) At funeral feestys men synge tragedies With wooful ditees of lamentacioun.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. x. sig. Eiijv Than shall he in redyng tragoedies execrate and abhorre the intollerable life of tyrantes.
1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 1 (heading) The Earle of Mvrtons tragedie, once Regent of Scotland..: yet Fortune enuying his estate and noblenes, brought him to lose his head on a Skaffold.
1788 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) VIII. iv. vii. 420 By comedies they [sc. medieval authors] meant only pleasant facetious stories..; and by tragedies, tales of woe, adapted to excite terror, grief, and pity.
1871 F. J. Furnivall Trial-forewords 77 The first part of [Chaucer's] Troylus may be called a comedy, the latter a tragedy.
1952 D. W. Robertson in ELH 19 7 The subject of a Chaucerian tragedy is..a man who has allowed himself to be elevated spiritually by ‘good’ fortune. Having achieved this eminence, he is beset by ‘evil’ fortune or adversity, before which he falls.
2005 M. Hattaway Renaissance & Reformations iii. 84 Medieval tragedies..depicted the fall of a great person from high degree. Often this was ascribed simply to the remorseless turning of Fortune's wheel.
b. A classical or Renaissance verse drama, written in an elevated style and dealing with the downfall or death of the protagonist, typically a political leader or royal personage who is brought to ruin because of his or her own error or fault, or because of a conflict with a greater force (such as fate or the gods). Later also: a drama of a similar nature but typically written in prose and dealing with people of any social level; (also) any literary or dramatic work dealing with serious themes and having an unhappy ending. Opposed to comedy n.1 2b.Definitions and characterizations of tragedy have been greatly influenced by those in Aristotle's Poetics, such as that a tragedy arouses pity and terror and effects a purgation or purification of these emotions (cf. catharsis n. b), and that the crisis in a tragedy is brought about by the protagonist's flaw or error (cf. hamartia n., tragic flaw n. at tragic adj. and n. Compounds 2).comedy-tragedy, farce-tragedy, revenge tragedy, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > tragedy > ancient Greek or Roman
tragedya1450
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a tragedy
tragedya1450
tragica1679
goat-singing1789
trago-drama1793
melo-tragedy1818
tragedietta1836
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 994 Ȝe may reden in a Tragedye Of Moral Senyk fully his endynge, His dool..How with sorow..This Edippus fille into dotage.
1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. vi As seyth Seneke in hys tragedyes, Age cometh to late to peple of smale howses.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Eij Companyons I want, to begynne thys tragedye.
1597 W. Shakespeare (title) An excellent conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet.
a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 391 in Wks. (1640) III Thespis is said to be the first, found out The Tragœdy, and carried it about, Till then unknown, in Carts, wherein did ride Those that did sing, and act.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 The Apocalyps of Saint Iohn is the majestick image of a high and stately Tragedy,..intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of halleluja's and harping symphonies.
1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant iv. iii. 50 Cry then Hansomly, cry like a Queen in a Trajedy.
1779 S. Johnson Otway in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 8 It [sc. Otway's The Orphan] is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vi. 609 Five of his sixteen plays are tragedies, that is, are concluded in death.
1845 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. III. 32 The chief thing demanded in a tragedy was a certain orderly pomp of expression.
1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 455/1 Emil scored his first triumph as a character-actor in the part of the wily Bishop Nicholas in Ibsen's tragedy The Pretenders.
1909 Western Reserve Univ. Bull. May 35 How do you feel when you have finished a tragedy like ‘The Mill on the Floss’, ‘Tess of the D'Urbervilles’, ‘The Scarlet Letter’, ‘Père Goriot’, or ‘Anna Karénina’?
1996 C. Hyers Spirituality of Comedy viii. 158 Sophoclean and Shakespearean tragedies follow an unmistakable pattern of descent into dismay, dissolution, darkness, death and decay.
2009 Screen Internat. (Nexis) 4 Feb. The film is a tragedy about an ex-convict's attempts to reconcile with his son and their contest for the love of the same woman.
2. The genre of drama or literature which consists of tragedies; tragedies as a class; (also) the style or form typical of tragedies. Also personified. Opposed to comedy n.1 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > tragedy
tragedyc1425
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 852 Tragidie, who so list to knowe, It begynneth in prosperite, And endeth euer in aduersite; And it also doth þe conquest trete Of riche kynges and of lordys grete.
?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 96 That scorpion fell [sc. Death] has done infek Maister Iohne Clerk and Iames Afflek Fra balat making and trigide.
1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia 282 Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 41 Som time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Scepter'd Pall com sweeping by.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 297 Euripides was accused by Aristophanes..for debasing the Majesty and Grandure of Tragedy.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber v. 73 Booth thought it depreciated the Dignity of Tragedy to raise a Smile.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad Pref. 5 In Epic poetry, Tragedy, or any other of the higher kinds of poetical composition.
1803 C. Dibdin Professional Life I. 25 A young gentleman calculated to cut a figure in tragedy and pantomime.
1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Prometheus (ed. 2) 799 (note) This use is common in Homer, but rare in tragedy.
1882 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 770/2 To fight the battle of Shakespearean drama against Racinian tragedy.
1900 W. L. Courtney Idea of Trag. 12 Tragedy is always the clash of two powers—necessity without, freedom within.
1919 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. French Novel II. iii. 102 The piece..is tragic enough: it could hardly fail to be so in the hands of such a master of tragedy.
1978 J. King Trag. in Victorian Novel (1979) ii. 43 [Henry] James appears to have little interest in tragedy as a literary form.
1999 T. Y. Grande Marlovian Trag. i. 31 Marlowe deflates the stately subject matter and serious tone of tragedy.
2005 New Yorker 17 Oct. 40/3 The movie veers from slapstick to tragedy.
†3. = tragedian n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of tragedy
tragedian?c1400
tragedya1464
tragedy writer1552
tragic1594
tragedist1802
tragedianess1822
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 40 Sophocles and Euripides..were cleped tragedies. Trajedi is as mech to sey as he þat writith eld stories with ditées heuy and sorowful.
a1500 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (St. John's Cambr.) 152 (MED) Traladie [c1450 Linc. a traiadien in his ditee Noght causeles þus cryeth].
4.
a. An event, series of events, or situation causing great suffering, destruction, or distress, and typically involving death (esp. on a large scale or when premature). Also in weakened use: a shocking or lamentable event or situation. See also eco-tragedy at eco- comb. form 2a(a).
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > dreadful or severe
tragedy1509
calamity1552
disaster1567
fatality1648
stroke1686
catastrophe1748
tragic1847
big one1978
meltdown1979
1509 S. Hawes Pastyme of Pleasure (de Worde) xii. sig. E.ii His chere is dolorous As in bewaylynge a wofull tragedy.
1535 R. Layton Let. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 76 To tell yowe all this commodie, but for thabbot a tragedie, hit were to long.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 207 The warre of Hungarie made all those parts full of tragedies and miserie.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Job i. 19 Lately at Witney..a scurrilous blasphemous Comedy was by the fall of the room wherein it was acted, turned into a Tragedy, as ending with the deaths of six.
?1749 W. Duff New Hist. Scotl. 241 The bloody Cardinal..witnessed this shocking scene and terrible tragedy in a pleasing and smiling countenance.
1784 European Mag. & London Rev. July 44/2 His..jocularity throughout the dreadful tragedy of the King's trial and execution..gives greater pain than the action itself.
1860 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. VI. xiv. 222 The fearful tragedy known as that of the Black Hole of Calcutta took place on the 20th of June, 1756.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xx. 572 The turning-point of William's reign, the tragedy of the fate of Waltheof.
1904 Collier's 7 May 10/1 The most deplorable feature of the awful tragedy on the battleship Missouri is that the exact cause of the accident will never, probably, be discovered.
1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 Dec. 4/1 It would be a tragedy if the personal intimate side of British elections was steam-rollered into a flat monotony.
1988 Indian Bookworm's Jrnl. Summer 4/2 It is a tragedy that our best young men are not joining the Defence Services.
1993 Rolling Stone 27 May 31/3 No other mainstream journalist has..caught the dimensions of the AIDS tragedy so poignantly.
2005 J. Canseco Juiced 157 John had to face a personal tragedy..when his eight-year-old son..died from a rare degenerative nerve disease.
b. Tragic events or circumstances collectively; suffering, misfortune, or sorrow arising from such events or circumstances.
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1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική vii. 127 This long harangue must needs be full of tragedy to all them that take liberty to themselves to follow Scripture and their best Guides, if it happens in that liberty that they depart from the perswasions or the Communion of Rome.
1797 C. Smith Elegiac Sonnets II. Pref. xiv It is, indeed, a melancholy truth, that at this time there is so much tragedy in real life.
1868 Putnam's Mag. Aug. 240/1 The New York Custom-house..is a place full of tragedy and full of farce.
1904 H. Fuller Californian circling Globe vi. 199 Human life is full of tragedy everywhere, yet in depth and force, tragedy had its full play in and about this city [sc. Jerusalem].
1961 Phylon 22 396 The ten slight and somewhat sketchy short stories..treat the human tragedy which is the result of racial injustice in South Africa.
2011 E. Trotter Denendeh ix. 75 Her life seemed to be beset by tragedy, especially losing the people she loved so dearly.
c. Chiefly with of. The lamentable or bad element, aspect, or quality of something.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [noun] > a matter for regret
scathec1300
sinc1300
pityc1325
damagec1385
spitec1400
pity?c1450
remorse1548
tragedy1873
1873 Every Sat. 22 Feb. 99/2 The tragedy of love is simply unrequited love.
1895 Critic (N.Y.) 3 Aug. 67/2 It shows the disappointment that lies in success, the tragedy of victory.
1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. vi The tragedy of illness at present is that it delivers you helplessly into the hands of a profession which you deeply mistrust.
1943 P. De Kruif Kaiser wakes Doctors v. 36 This is medicine's tragedy: where doctors are individual businessmen dealing with the average individual sick man, they dare not sell all the science they have to offer.
1994 P. D. James Original Sin v. 42 The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve.
2010 Daily Tel. 5 July 16/4 The tragedy of formal education today is that anything remotely risky or exciting is simply pasteurised to oblivion.
5. With possessive: the tragic story of a person's life or death; a person's tragic fate; esp. a person's downfall or violent death. Frequently with allusion to sense 1b.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > an evil fate
mischancec1325
tragedya1522
wanluck1571
misfate1614
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 264 Sen I suld thi [sc. Dido's] trigidy endite.
a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) i. sig. B1v This sword..should the Author be, To make an end of this my Tragedie.
1598 E. Ford Parismus xi. sig. L2v I feare..hee poore soule is destroyed by the trecherie of that wicked homicide.., who is not contented with his tragidie, but also seeketh my destruction.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 186 He ceased not to bewaile my misery, and to recount my Tragedy as if it had been the burning of Troy.
1677 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery 155 Men sit by, like idle Spectators, and still give money towards their own Tragedy.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) xci. iv Thou..shalt look on and see The Wicked's dismal Tragedy.
1842 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. V. 84 Her wifely probation, as queen consort of England, was, however, near its close; for Henry's own tragedy was rapidly drawing to a termination.
1894 H. James Jrnl. 9 Jan. in Notebks. (1981) 144 In what cases may the consciousness be said to survive—so that the man is the spectator of his own tragedy?
1927 Pop. Mech. June 47 These poor devils had laid the foundation for their tragedy in their youth.
2005 M. O. Baruch in G. D. Feldman & W. Seibel Networks Nazi Persecution xi. 197 Jews were forced to become the very agents of their own tragedy.
†6. A speech expressing sorrow or grief; a lament. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting
moan?c1225
mean?c1250
bimena1325
lamentation1382
queryc1400
pinec1440
tragedy1536
lamentc1592
complaint?1606
conclamation1627
quiritation1634
throb1635
pathetic1667
dismals1774
jeremiad1780
complain1820
tangi1836
Jobism1855
wail1867
rune1922
vigil1956
1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. T.vv, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes Our aduersaries in the confutation make wonderfull tragedies, and sorowfull exclamations about the desolation of churches.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. 259 Iudge thou..how iust causes M. Hardinge had, to moue these Tragedies.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti liv, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. D4v I waile and make my woes a Tragedy.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2 Herevpon they raise vp a tragedie, and wish in their heart the Temple had neuer bene built.
1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 538 Some would raise such Stirres and Tragedies about.
1689 C. Mather Disc. Witchcraft App. 11 in Memorable Provid. He raises dismal Tragedies upon the Persecution which his Friends here have met withal.
†7. (The name of) a hymn sung at a sacrifice in Ancient Greece. Obsolete.Apparently based on an assumptions about the origin of the ancient Greek etymon: see discussion in etymology.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > hymn or song of praise > specific hymn
Te DeumOE
trisagiona1387
exultand1519
tragedy1546
goat song1678
Tantum ergo1709
Exultet1869
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. ix. f. 18 As the aulters were kyndeled with fyre, and the Goate leyed on it, the quyre in honoure of Bacchus songe thys Meter called a Tragedie [L. Tragoedia].
1684 tr. F. Hédelin d'Aubignac Whole Art of Stage iv. ii. 110 Their [sc. the Athenians'] best Poets began to be concern'd in the Hymn to Bacchus... Because..the Victim that was sacrificed to him, was a Goat,..this Hymn was called Tragedy [Fr. Tragédie], as who should say, the Goat-Song.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1b), as tragedy actor, tragedy actress, tragedy player; tragedy god, tragedy king, tragedy speech, etc.
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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
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tragedie player, tragœdus.
1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie v. 21 Could one Theodorus a Tragedie plaier espy that in the stage?
1690 R. Smith in tr. Plutarch Morals V. 387 There must be also the Tragedy-Actors.
1736 H. Fielding Tumble-down Dick 17 Enter Tragedy King and Queen, and knock at Covent-Garden Play-House Door.
1740 Apol. Life Mr. T— C—, Comedian ii. 17 In short, all my Manner was burlesqu'd, and a mock Pomp of Words, which were a Parody of Tragedy Speeches.
1772 D. Garrick Let. 11 Nov. (1963) II. 825 As to Mr Barry he is not paid, if he does not play: I will not say anything about the superior Sallary given to Tragedy-Actors.
1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. I. 300 In hopes of getting five farthings, by the assistance of fortune, or some tragedy god, you come to the trial.
1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. xii. 333 A tragedy heroine..is a moral-picturesque object.
1818 Examiner 6 Dec. 774/2 Mrs. West, if she does not take care, will degenerate into a regular tragedy-actress.
1888 F. Hawkins French Stage in 18th Cent. I. 418 He would throw down his tools to declaim tragedy-speeches for the delectation of the workmen.
1900 Macmillan's Mag. May 50/1 More like a tragedy-king than a monarch of history.
2000 P. O. Qvist & P. von Bagh Guide Cinema of Sweden & Finland 63 He was also a great tragedy actor.
b. With the sense ‘typical of a tragic actor or character’; (in early use) ‘grandiose, dignified’ (cf. tragic adj. 2b); (now chiefly) ‘mournful, sorrowful’ (cf. tragic adj. 1b); as tragedy air, tragedy voice, tragedy stalk, tragedy strut, etc.
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1714 J. Ozell tr. Molière Misantrope 149 in tr. Molière Wks. III. But what's the Occasion. I beseech you, of these Tragedy-Airs? Have you lost your Senses?
1767 Public Advertiser 3 Feb. Nor would the Audience be quiet 'till Mr. Stayley came forwards, which he did with a true Tragedy Strut.
1848 H. Mayhew Change for Shilling 74 ‘Let me hope every one here will follow my example.’ So saying, I left the shop with a tragedy strut.
1854 Househ. Words 13 May 306/2 I should be rather inclined to describe his gait as a tragedy stalk, like that of a tragedian of very great power at the Victoria Theatre.
1861 M. Eyre Family Hist. I. ii. 54 ‘Go back to your seat,’ said my aunt, in her tragedy voice.
1877 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 3 May 5/3 Among others I noticed a lady of middle age, who came in and out of the dining-room with a tragedy air.
1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester viii. 102 She gazed at me with a tragedy air, wringing her hands.
2010 Observer (Nexis) 5 Dec. 7 ‘Not quite nasal enough,’ thought Coogan. He added more nose for Caine's tragedy voice. ‘She was only 16 years old,’ he said, voice cracking.
C2.
† tragedy drum n. Obsolete a messenger who works for a theatre; cf. drum n.1 2.
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1702 R. Steele Funeral iv. 59 He is a Tragedy-Drum to one of the Play-Houses.
1737 R. Baker Rehearsal: Mad-house ii. xi. 42 The Tragedy Drum, from Drury-lane, wou'd speak with your Worship.
1832 J. Genest Some Acct. Eng. Stage III. 514 The Tragedy Drum from D. L. says to Dr. Hyppo—‘Our Master desires you'll give Pistol the correction of your house.’
† tragedy man n. Obsolete a tragic actor; spec. the chief tragic actor in a theatre.
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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
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 102 You'll never get it by swelling yourself with pride and vanity, and speaking your words like a tragedy man.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 588 The vacant situation of tragedyman.
1859 R. S. Mackenzie Tressilian 126 The first tragedy-man or the leading comedian may be comparatively modest in his own self-estimate.
tragedy victim n. (originally) a victim in a tragic drama; (now chiefly) a victim of a natural disaster, fatal accident, or other catastrophic event.
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1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 24 A tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery.
1875 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 20 July 3/1 The man who was killed..was the hero of an obscure romance as well as a tragedy victim.
1928 Bakersfield Californian 29 Mar. 9/4 The Mojave desert has added another to its list of tragedy victims.
2012 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 16 May 14 Relatives of tragedy victims struggling to adjust.
tragedy writer n. = tragedian n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of tragedy
tragedian?c1400
tragedya1464
tragedy writer1552
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tragedie wryter, tragicus, Sophocles.
c1740 G. Walmsley Let. 2 Mar. in J. Hawkins Life Johnson (1787) 39 Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet, and, I have great hopes, will turn out a fine tragedy-writer.
1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Feb. 113/1 The grief of the unsuccessful farce writer is much less sublime than that of the disappointed tragedy writer.
2000 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 18 Feb. 20 Unlike the tragedy writers of ancient Greece who wrote in classical Greek, Aristophanes wrote his plays in the vernacular.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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