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English
Etymology
From Late Latin theātricus, equivalent to theatre + -ic.
Adjective
theatric (not comparable)
- Relating to acting or the theater, theatrical.
1889 July 12, Macon, “Macon’s Melange. The Big Fight As He Saw It. He Tells of Some By-Play at the Ring-Side. ”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XLVII, number 195, Cincinnati, Oh., published 14 July 1889, page 11, column 6:A feature of the fight was the melodramaticness of the Champion of Champions. [John L.] Sullivan was intensely theatric at times. On several occasions, when the crowd gave vent to its displeasure at Kilrain’s method of fighting, the big fellow would half turn toward it, and, raising his right arm aloft, would still the cries by a deprecating wave of his hand.
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