• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

    Ambrose Bierce: PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press