Noah Webster
Tragic
TRAGIC
TRAG'ICAL, adjective [Latin tragicus.]
1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; tragic play or representation.
2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of Hayti the tragic horrors of Scio and Missilonghi; the tragical fate of the Greeks.
3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
I now must change those notes to tragic