supermajestic

— "Garrick's agile movement and elegant levity, in which Bannister might have been a valuable follower, were utterly superseded; a dignified and supermajestic manner was thrown around every character, from Shakspere's murderous Thane to Rowe's gay rake. This taste descended through all the performers in tragedy; and he who had to deliver a message of nomore importance than. Cæsar sends health to Cato,' would well have earned Quin's indignant reproof, 'I wish he'd sent it by some other messenger.'"