a. [ L. comicus pertaining to comedy, Gr.
I can not for the stage a drama lay,
Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A comedian. [ Obs. ] Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n.;
n. The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. [ R. ] H. Giles. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. The section of a newspaper containing mostly comic strips; -- called also
n. a brief sequence of drawings, usually with characters drawn only sketchily, as in a cartoon, with dialog written in “balloons” over a character's head, and depicting a fictional and usually comical incident; -- also called a