"tragicize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1840, John Henry Newman, The Church of the Fathers, section VIII",
          "text": "How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep.",
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        "To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style."
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        "(obsolete, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style."
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          "text": "I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized.",
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          "ref": "2009, Joseph Litvak, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture, page 156",
          "text": "Fired and, in effect, executed too, Phillip Loeb had to be tragicized, like the Rosenbergs […].",
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        "To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic."
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        "(rare) To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic."
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