Tragedy

Tragedy (tragedy)
n.	(?)
Trag"e*dy
; pl. Tragedies (#). [OE. tragedie, OF. tragedie, F. tragédie, L. tragoedia, Gr. (?), fr. (?) a tragic poet and singer, originally, a goat singer; (?) a goat (perhaps a

A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.

Tragedy is to say a certain storie,
As olde bookes maken us memorie,
Of him that stood in great prosperitee
And is yfallen out of high degree
Into misery and endeth wretchedly. Chaucer.

All our tragedies are of kings and princes. Jer. Taylor.

tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. Coleridge.

A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

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The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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