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ating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy. I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson.

eny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay.

The quality of being comical; something comical.

The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. [R.] H. Giles.

Coxcombical. [R.]

Conceitedly. [R.]

Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.

Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.

Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.

Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv. Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.

The comic actress in an opera. -- a.

The comic actor in an opera.

A comic operetta; a music farce. Byron.

To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.] This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells.

The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.