Obs. Also -ent. [? ad. It. comediante, ppl. sb. from comediare ‘to play Comedies’ (Florio), f. comedia COMEDY.] = COMEDIAN.
1568. North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall of Princes, I. xlv. 79 b. Iugglers, comediantes, and minstrels.
1598. Sidney’s Apol. Poetrie, Wks. 504. The signifying badge giuen them by the Comœdient [ed. 1595 comedian].
1671. H. Stubbe, Reply, 19. The Comediants had not patience to read it.
