Definition of Histrions

1. Noun. (plural of histrion) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Histrions

1. histrion [n] - See also: histrion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Histrions

histrion
histrionic
histrionic personality
histrionic personality disorder
histrionic spasm
histrionical
histrionically
histrionicism
histrionick
histrionics
histrionism
histrionisms
histrionize
histrionized
histrionizing
histrions
histrios
hists
hit-and-miss
hit-and-run
hit-and-run(a)
hit-by-pitch
hit-or-miss
hit-out
hit-outs
hit-skip
hit a home run
hit a nerve
hit a raw nerve

Literary usage of Histrions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"Is it only singing histrions who appear to you objects of compassion ? Good-bye, dearest Harriet. I have to write to Emily, and to answer an American ..."

2. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"introduced at Rome by Histrions, who, as already mentioned, were summoned from Etruria, ... These Histrions being mounted on a stage, hke our mountebanks, ..."

3. Louis XVI Détroné Avant D'être Roi: Ou Tableau Des Causes Nécessitantes de by abbé Proyart, Liévain Bonaventure Proyart (1800)
"... l'unité catholique et d'outrager les puissances ; ce tems enfin de corruption inouie, où la morale dissolue des histrions, devenue la morale des grands, ..."

4. History of Provençal Poetry by Claude Charles Fauriel (1860)
"In both the civil and the ecclesiastical laws of the Middle Age we find certain provisions, which prove that at this epoch there existed histrions and mimes ..."

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