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- noun Plural form of
histrion .
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Examples
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Many things have come and gone; the nation has got tired of John's tyranny, of Henry the Third's weakness, of the Pope's supremacy, but the histrions continue to tumble and jump; "their points being broken, down fall their hose," (to use Shakespeare's words), and the great at Court are convulsed with laughter on their benches.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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No; we applaud to the echo, we laugh till, as Mr. CHEVALIER says, "we thort we should ha 'died," but we don't encore the comic jokes, telling situations, or serious soliloquies as rendered by our accomplished histrions.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 Various
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First we know from innumerable testimonies that those histrions spoke and told endless nonsense; they have been often enough reproached with it for no doubt to remain as to their talking.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Treatises and Councils, however, might to our advantage have been even more circumstantial; the pity is that they, naturally enough, consider it below their dignity to descend to very minute particulars; it is enough for them to give an enumeration, and to condemn in one phrase all the mimes, tumblers, histrions, wrestlers, and the rest of the juggling troup.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The direction passed more and more into the hands of the laity, who employed jongleurs, histrions, and strolling vagabonds, whose acting included gross buffoonery, and whose profanity completely choked the religious growth first implanted by these miracle plays.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 Various
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Besides their horseplay, jugglers and histrions had, to please their audience, retorts, funny answers, witticisms, merry tales, which they acted rather than told, for gestures accompanied the delivery.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Athenians, who preferred the inventions of mechanics to the culture of mind and histrions to philosophers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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But a certain number were, as might be said, professional pedestrians, peddlers with their packs upon their shoulders, anxious to dispose of ribbons and trinkets to gaping rustics, easily bubbled burgesses, and to the more wary histrions and mountebanks, for whom a different scale of charges ranged.
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It is probable that the accounts of their misunderstandings are considerably exaggerated, as the rehearsal of a tragedy by this pair of histrions would be taken by the servants for a sure-enough fight.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885
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The jongleurs of the Middle Ages were the immediate descendants of the Roman mimes and histrions; their declamations, accompanied by gestures, at least tended towards the dramatic form.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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