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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

tragicus

, Gr.[GREEK]: cf. F.

tragique

Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy;

as, a

tragic

poem; a

tragic

play or representation

Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous;

as, the

tragic

scenes of the French revolution

Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

Why look you still so stern and

tragical

Shakespeare

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Trag′ic-al-ly

adv.

–

Trag′ic-al-ness

Noun.

tragical

(archaic) tragic
- 1918, Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Joint Session of Congress on the Fourteen Points
  No statesman who has the least conception of responsibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragical and appalling outpouring of blood and treasure...