Tragedy

trai'e-dt, n. A dramatic poem representing some signal action performed by illustrious persons, and generally having a fatal i ue; a fatal mournful event; any event in which human are lost by violence.— Trage'dian, tra-je'dT-an, A writer of tragedy; a tragic actor or actre . Trag'ic, -ical, a. Pert, to, or of the nature of, edy; fatal to life; calamitous; mournful; expre ive of tragedy, lo of life, or of sorrow. — Trag'icom'edy, -Tt-kom/'e-di, n. A composition parti of the nature both of tragedy and comedy. — Trag'- has i-comlc, -ical, a. Pert, to tragi-comedy; partaking of of a mixture of grave and comic scenes.