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tragic

tragic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
  2. 2.Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. Why look you still so stern and tragical Shak. -- Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Trag"ic*al*ness, n.
  3. 3.A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]
  4. 4.A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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