Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DRAM'A
DRAMDRA-MAT'IC, or DRA-MAT'IC-AL
DRAM'A, n. [Gr. δραμα, from δραω, to make.]
A poem or composition representing a picture of human life, and accommodated to action. The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are the tragic-comedy, opera, &c. – Encyc.
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