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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tragedian
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Homer, the tragedians of fifth-century Athens reveal a dualist universe in which Zeus is transcendent and man introspective.
▪ He kept referring to Wehman as a tragedian.
▪ I knew what Aristophanes had said, what Agathon, the tragedian, had said, what Alcibiades had said.
▪ If there were tragedy clubs at which people came to watch stand-up tragedians, Mr Brown would be a star.
▪ Mones held himself as stiffly as a nineteenth-century tragedian, and filled his lines with sentiment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tragedian

Tragedian \Tra*ge"di*an\, n. [Cf. F. trag['e]dien.]

  1. A writer of tragedy.

    Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught.
    --Milton.

  2. An actor or player in tragedy.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tragedian

"writer of tragedies," late 14c., from Old French tragediane (Modern French tragédien), from tragedie (see tragedy). Another word for this was tragician (mid-15c.). Meaning "actor in tragedies" is from 1590s. French-based fem. form tragedienne is from 1851. In late classical Greek, tragodos was the actor, tragodopoios the writer.

Wiktionary
tragedian

n. 1 An actor who specializes in tragic roles. 2 A playwright who writes tragedies.

WordNet
tragedian

  1. n. a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies

  2. an actor who specializes in tragic roles

Wikipedia
Tragedian (disambiguation)

Tragedian refers to:

  • A term for Greek playwrights who wrote tragedies. See Greek Tragedy.
  • The name of the roving acting company in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
  • The name of a German metal band formed in 2002: Tragedian (band)

Usage examples of "tragedian".

DAW: And so Pindarus, Lycophron, Anacreon, Catullus, Seneca the tragedian, Lucan, Propertius, Tibullus, Martial, Juvenal, Ausonius, Statius, Politian, Valerius Flaccus, and the rest-- CLER: What a sack full of their names he has got!

Here is a theatre for great dramas, wanting only the tragedian, The outlawed Sheikh of the Bishareen knew this full well, but, unlike others who know it, he had acted upon his convictions and revealed to wondering Egypt what Bedouin craft and a band of intrepid horsemen can do, aided by a belt of sand, and cloaked by night.

The sign of this consummation was his ability at last to play with his art, and thus to add to his already famous achievements in sentimental drama that lighthearted art of comedy of which the greatest masters, like Moliere and Mozart, are so much rarer than the tragedians and sentimentalists.

This cry of the rough man is unexpected, and grandiose as the voice of ancient tragedians chanting the threnody of a hero.

His study of the Greek tragedians and his own taste led him to submit willingly to the rigor and simplicity of form which were the fundamental marks of the classical ideal.

We have Madame Ellie Morte, tragedian and chanteuse, who has performed before many of the great barons of Deathlands.

A powerful preacher is open to the same sense of enjoyment--an awful, tremulous, goose-flesh sort of state, but still enjoyment--that a great tragedian feels when he curdles the blood of his audience.

A dose of hydrocyanic acid, administered per ora to the most sagacious woman imaginable, affects her just as swiftly and just as deleteriously as it affects a tragedian, a crossing-sweeper, or an ambassador to the Court of St.

She acted out horror like a creaking tragedian at the least popular day of some tired and dusty festival.

He passed the facades of the Tragedian, the Elegante, and the Arcadella, with their well-proportioned columns and statues of the Graces and the patron saints of drama and the arts.

She combines the brains of a businessman, the toughness of a prize fighter, the warmth of a companion, the humor of a tragedian.