TRAGI-COM'EDY, noun A kind of dramatic piece representing some action passed among eminent persons, the event of which is not unhappy, in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a species of composition not now used, or held in little estimation.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.