a. (and sb.) [f. L. cothurn-us + -AL.] Of or pertaining to the cothurnus; of tragedy, tragic.

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1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. i. Wks. (Rtldg.), 130/1. Cothurnal buskins.

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1657.  Lusts Dominion, V. v. in Hazl., Dodsley, XIV. 183. The scene wants actors; I’ll fetch more, and clothe it In rich cothurnal pomp.

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1659.  Chamberlayne, Pharonida, II. iv. Then in its high Cothurnal scenes, a lofty tragedy Erects their thoughts.

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  † B.  as sb. = COTHURNUS. Obs.

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1626.  G. Sandys, Life of Ovid, b 2 (R. Supp.). The tragick stage on high cothurnals climes.

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