Nonactable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not actable. not-comparable

    "In classifying epics, in effect, as nonactable forms of tragedy, Aristotle was following in the footsteps of Plato in the Theaetetus, where Socrates remarks that the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry are Epicharmus in comedy and Homer in tragedy."

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"In classifying epics, in effect, as nonactable forms of tragedy, Aristotle was following in the footsteps of Plato in the Theaetetus, where Socrates remarks that the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry are Epicharmus in comedy and Homer in tragedy."

Etymology

From non- + actable.

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