Word Meanings - TRAGI-COMI-PASTORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. Gay.
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- PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor. - COMBINATION
The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making - COMBINE
1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. - PARTAKER
1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30. - COMEDY
A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the - COMBINED
United closely; confederated; chemically united. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - TRAGEDY
1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say - COMBINATE
United; joined; betrothed. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - POETRY
1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, - PASTORALE
A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time. 2. A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance. - PASTORAL
1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff , a staff, usually of the form - COMBING
See CARDING (more info) 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long - COMBINEDLY
; jointly. - NATURE
1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order - PARTAKE
1. To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke. When I against myself with thee partake. Shak. - COMBINER
One who, or that which, combines. - COMBINABLE
Capable of combinding; consistent with. M. Arnold. -- Com*bin"a*ble*ness, n. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - INCOMBINE
To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. Milton. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of. - SIGNATURE
An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well - DISNATURED
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.