a. [ad. L. cothurnāt-us, f. cothurnus: see -ATE2.] Shod with the cothurnus; buskined; tragic.

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1612.  Heywood, Apol. Actors, II. D 2. With royall stile speakes our Cothurnate Muse. Ibid. (1635), Hierarch., IV. 243. Sophocles, the Prince of the Cothurnate Tragedie.

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  So † Cothurnated, Cothurned ppl. a., buskined. Cothurnian, † Cothurnic in quot. quothurnicke). † Cothurnical a. = COTHURNAL.

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1623.  Cockeram, Cothurnated, one wearing buskins.

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1882.  G. P. Lathrop, in Harper’s Mag., LXV. 563/1. With peasants in blue, red, yellow, mantled and cothurned.

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1661.  K. W., Conf. Charac., Old Hording Hagg (1860), 90. Her feet are inveloped in her aulean or rather cothurnian buskins.

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1824.  New Monthly Mag., XII. 152. Her measured cothurnian step.

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1607.  Heywood, Fayre Mayde Exch., Prol. Our Muse … to the highest pitch her wings shall reare, And prowd quothurnicke action shall deuise.

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1599.  Broughton’s Lett., viii. 28. After your saucie manner in a cothurnicall challenge.

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