1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 8As some princes in other countries haue made their liues Comico-tragical.
1820 Edin. Rev. XXXIV. 290In what he calls a comico-prosaic style.
1831 Crayons fr. the Commons 83 Till all his comicoepy's expended.
1831 Southey in Q.Rev. XLV. 427The idiosyncratic, democratic, cosmocratic, comicocratic Jeremy that he is. [ Bentham]
1833 ― Lett. (1856) IV. 336The first scene was the most tragi-comic or comico-tragic that it was ever my fortune to be engaged in.
1835 ― in C. C. Southey Life &Corr. VI. 270Cryptography, or what might more properly be called in Dovean language, comicography.
1847 De Quincey Wks. (1862) VII. 51Wieland had a touch of the comico-cynical in his nature.
1851 Carlyle Sterling iii. iv. 204In the mock-heroic or comico-didactic vein.
1880 Cornh. Mag. XLII. 659A comico-tragedy was enacted at Mrs. Ellis's concerning this very plate.
ORIGIN: from Latin comicus , Greek kōmikos : see comic , -o- .
comico-
combining form
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin comicus — more at comic
: comic : comic and
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