Word of the Day challenge Options

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Word of the Day Challenge

I'll post a new word for each day, including its definition(s). All words are courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary unless otherwise noted.

Ferrets are asked to write a short ficlet (between 100-500 words) and include a WotD.

Submissions can be any genre, about any canon character(s) in any time period.

• There is no deadline.
• You may use any previously listed WotD once.
• You may use more than one WotD in a single submission.
• Please give each submission a title.
• You should specify the WotD used at the end of your post.
• All subs are to be posted in this topic.
• Comments for submissions must be posted in the WotD Discussion topic.
• Each submission will count as 2 Ferret Points (10 galleons) towards its writer's earnings in the Hogwarts Bathroom Fund Drive.

[evlpez]

tragical, a. (n.)
[f. L. tragic-us (see prec.) + -AL1: see -ICAL. In earlier use than tragic or F. tragique.]

1. Of the nature of, or resembling tragedy in respect of its matter; relating to or expressing fatal or dreadful events; = TRAGIC a. 2.
Cf. F. tragique, ‘tragicall, tragicke,..bloudie, deadlie, dolefull, dismall’ (Cotgr.), It. tragico, ‘tragicall, dismall, deadly’ (Florio).

c1489 CAXTON Blanchardyn liv. 213 The vnfortunate report and tragicall tidings. 1596 Edward III, V. I. 105 So must my voice be tragicall againe, And I must sing of dole~full accidents. 1641 J. JACKSON True Evang. T. I. 43 Eusebius was an eye-witnesse of these things, who tels a most tragicall story hereof. 1828 DUPPA Trav. Italy, etc. 150 It represents the tragical fable of Hippolytus

2. Appropriate to or befitting tragedy; having the elevated or dignified style of tragedy; serious and stately; also, affectedly elevated, grandiose, pompous; (of language) grandiloquent, rhetorical, extravagant; (of aspect or manner) grave, formidable; = TRAGIC 1c. Obs. (exc. as involved in 1 or 3).

1548 UDALL, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark xii. 78 What with their magnifik and hye titles, and what with their tragicall and masking apparell, as though they had bene almost god almighties peeres. 1565 JEWEL Def. Apol. II. xiii. (1611) 255 He..would thinke these Tragical termes should beare some weight. For sober men seldome vse thus to cry without some cause. 1579 LYLY Euphues (Arb.) 137, I would haue tragical and stately stile shunned. 1591 SHAKES. 1 Hen. VI, III. I. 125 Why looke you still so sterne, and tragicall? 1673 Lady's Call. II. iii. §2 Those tragical furies wherewith some women seem transported.

b. Excited with tragic feeling.

c1592 MARLOWE Massacre Paris II. vi, Though I seem mild and calm, Think not but I am tragical within. 1887 M. E. BRADDON Like & Unlike I, It will never do for Valentine to surprise us in this tragical mood.

3. = TRAGIC a. 3.

1555 EDEN Decades 144 The turmoyles and tragicall affayres of the Ocean. 1644 [H. PARKER] Jus Pop. 22 The latter part of Neroes tragicall raign. 1716 LADY M. W. MONTAGU Let. to Lady Rich 1 Dec., The tragical end of an only son. 1784 P. WRIGHT New Bk. Martyrs 797/1, I shall want assistance to help me upon this tragical stage [the scaffold]. 1871 MORLEY Crit. Misc. Ser. I. Condorcet (1878) 35 A destiny..as tragical as any in those bloody and most tragical days.

4. = TRAGIC a. 1. Obs.

1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie I. xi. (Arb.) 41 They set forth the dolefull falles of infortunate and afflicted Princes, and were called Poets Tragicall. 1590 SHAKES. Mids. N. V. I. 57 A tedious breefe Scene of yong Piramus, And his loue Thisby; very tragicall mirth. Ibid. 66, A play there is, my Lord,..And tragicall..it is: For Piramus therein doth kill himselfe. 1629 WADSWORTH Pilgr. v. 47 They made a Tragicall-Comedy of our voyage, whereby they got much money and honour.

B. n. A tragical story or strain. Obs. rare.

1606 G. W[OODCOCKE] Hist. Ivstine XIX. 75 Hauing heard the Tragicall of what was become of them..they redoubled their griefes. 1621 R. BRATHWAIT Nat. Embassie (1877) 119 Terpnus..did..sing on his Lute these wofull tragicalls.