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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Trag`i-com"ic\, Tragi-comical \Trag`i-com"ic*al\,
a. [Cf. F. tragi-comique.]
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.
 

 

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