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• aa. of, in the style of, tragedy, as t. drama, the t. stage, in a t. voice, t. actor, t. irony, use in Greek tragedy of words having an inner esp. prophetic meaning for audience unsuspected by speaker; sad, calamitous, distressing, as a t. tale, event, scene. Hence tragically adv., tragicalness n. [Latin]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry