Roscian

[ rosh-ee-uhn, rosh-uhn ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or involving acting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Roscian¹

First recorded in 1600–10; Rosci(us) + -an

Example Sentences

I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of “the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles.”

From Literature

A folded piece of paper in one of them attracting my attention, I opened it and found it to be the play-bill I had received from Joe, relative to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown.

From Literature

Such as we conceive him to have been, we have drawn him—hoping that the benevolent reader, upon finishing our Tale, will arrive at the same conclusion; and, in the words of the quaint old Prologue to the Prince of Prigs' Revels, ——————Thank that man, Can make each thief a complete Roscian!

From Project Gutenberg

At the commencement of our own century, and in what we are wont to consider the Roscian Period of the British stage, its condition seemed so deplorable to Leigh Hunt, then the dramatic critic of "The News," as to require "An Essay on the Appearance, Causes, and Consequences of the Decline of British Comedy."

From Project Gutenberg

And now, in pity to an afflicted parent, hear for a while his offspring's Roscian capabilities.

From Project Gutenberg