Pronunciation: prag-ma-to-gra'-fi-a
Alternate Spelling: the counterfait action, description of actions
The description of an action (such as a battle, a feast, a marriage, a burial, etc.). A kind of enargia.
Horatio reports to Hamlet the appearance his father's ghost: Horatio: Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear, till I may deliver, Upon the witness of these gentlemen, This marvel to you. Hamlet: For God's love let me hear! Horatio: Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch, In the dead waste and middle of the night, Been thus encount'red: a figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, Appears before them, and with solemn march Goes slow and stately by them; thrice he walk'd By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes Within his truncheon's length, whilst they, distill'd Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me In dreadful secrecy impart they did, And I with them the third night kept the watch, Where, as they had delivered, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes. I knew your father, These hands are not more like.