Comicality

That which is mirthful, comical, or Com'ically, adv. In a comical, or mirth-provoking Com'icalne , n. State or quality of being comical. Com'icry, a. Comicality; art or power of exciting Comines', PHILIPPE DE, a French statesman and historian, born at the castle of Comines, near Lille, 1445. He entered the service of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. In 1472 he was sent by Charles to the French Court, entered the service of Louis XI., and remained in it till the king's death, in 1483. Litigation then arose respecting some estates given him by Louis, and he was imprisoned. On his release he was made a councillor by Charles VIII., whom he followed in his invasion of Italy. He retired in 1498. His Mémoires present a very vivid and authentic portraiture of the court of Louis XI., and of the principal events and general character of the age in which he lived. Died in 1509, at his domain of Argent on. merriment; as, "Cheerful comicry."