• ComÅ“dy

    Full definition of comœdy

    Noun

    comœdy

    (plural comœdies)
    1. Archaic spelling of comedy
      • 1619, Lewis Richome (Louis Richeome) aut. and C.A. tr., Holy Pictures of the myÅ¿ticall Figures of the moÅ¿t holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the EuchariÅ¿t, the tenth picture: “The Propitiatory Sacrifice”, § 7: ‘The Sacrifice of the MaÅ¿Å¿e, and the Sacraments, rather giue then take any honor from the CroÅ¿Å¿e’, page 197:For in outward Å¿hew nothing appeares, but infirmity, to the eyes of Infidels, neither will they beleeue, that our Sauiour can make his body there preÅ¿ent; it alÅ¿o Å¿eemes to them impiety, and therefore they call it Idolatry; it appeares to them nothing, but folly, and therefore they mocke at it, as if it were a ComÅ“dy; whereas, notwithÅ¿tanding, it is an action of the Sonne of God, and the moÅ¿t godly worke of Piety and Religion, that is in the Church.
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