Stage-playing

Playing on the stage as an actor; play-acting.

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1597. in Engl. Studien, XLIII. 345. Wheras yo^r highnes said Subiectes … haue of longe tyme vsed and professed the Arte of Stageplayinge.

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1643. Baker, Chron., Jas. I., 151. Edward Allin … having gotten his wealth by Stage-playing, converted it to this pious use.

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1823. J. Gillies, trans. Aristotle’s Rhet., III. i. 366. Stage-playing and rhetorical elocution are things highly natural.

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