tragicalness

[Eng. tragical; -ne .] The quality or state of being tragical; sadne , mournfulne . "And we moralize the fable as well in the tragicalne of the event, as in the insolence of the undertaking." Decay of Piety. -ly.] Tragically, sadly, mournfully. *trăg-ic-lý, *trăg-ick-ly, adv. [Eng. tragic; "I shall sadly sing, too tragickly incl in'd." Stirling: Aurora, son. 102. trăg-I-com-ě-dỹ, s . [Eng. tragi- , for tragic , and comedy : Fr.tragicomédie .) A kind of dramatic poem in which tragic and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy. "Shakespeare has borrowed from Whetstone the plot of the noble tragicomedy of Measure for Measure ." - Macau lay: Hist . Eng . , ch. v. trăg-1-com-Ic, *trăg-1-com-Ic-al, adj . [Eng. tragi-, for tragic , and comic, comical ; Fr. tragi comique .] Pertaining to tragicomedy; partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy. "The whole art of the tragicomical farce lies in interweaving the several kinds of the drama."-Gay: What d'ye call It . nor, except the trivial characters noted above, any special affinities with the genus Moschus (q. v.), with which they were formerly grouped to form the family Moschide. Of this cla ification Profe or Flower ( Encyc . Brit ., ed. 9th, xv. 430) says: "There has scarcely been a more troublesome and obstinate error in zoology than in this a ociation of animals so really distinct." There are two genera, Tragulus (q. v.), and Hyomoschus. [WATER-CHEVRO TAIN. 2. Palæont.: Hyomoschus cra us, differing only in size from the modern species, has been found in Miocene deposits at Sansan, Gers, France.