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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.

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.

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

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.

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

austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy.