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choric /ˈkɒrɪk / /ˈkɔːrɪk /adjectiveBelonging to, spoken by, or resembling a chorus in drama or recitation: he is a choric commentator speaking with the wisdom of age...- Where Brecht uses song or projected words upon a screen, Shakespeare is more likely to use choric characters who may utter highly wrought poetic speeches of some length only to disappear for the rest of the play.
- In the same way, the sight of his father defeated by unemployment provides Death of a Salesman with its Greek, choric universality.
- He praises her perfection in hyperbolic, mythological terms in the long speech which precedes the choric conclusion to the play.
OriginMid 19th century: via late Latin from Greek khorikos, from khoros 'chorus'. Rhymesaleatoric, allegoric, anaphoric, camphoric, categoric, Doric, euphoric, historic, metaphoric, meteoric, phantasmagoric, phosphoric, pyrophoric, semaphoric, sophomoric, theophoric, Warwick, Yorick |