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Definition of Gelastic
1. a. Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
Definition of Gelastic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter. ¹
2. Adjective. A particularly severe form of epileptic fit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gelastic
1. relating to laughter [adj]
Medical Definition of Gelastic
1. Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Origin: Gr. Inclined to laugh, from to laugh. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gelastic
Literary usage of Gelastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families by Hester Dorsey Richardson (1913)
"The gelastic law, passed on the 18th of June, 1745, was that " If any ... At the
very next meeting—June 25—we find "the gelastic law was this night put in ..."
2. Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families by Hester Dorsey Richardson (1913)
"The gelastic law, passed on the 18th of June, 1745, was that "If any subject ...
At the very next meeting—June 25—we find "the gelastic law was this night ..."
3. Potter's American Monthly (1873)
"Whereupon he had the gelastic law put in execution against him, ... 82 At a
subsequent meeting it is recorded, That "the gelastic law was this night put in ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"gelastic, something risible : both a substantive and adjective. Happy man would
be his dole who, when he had made up his mind in dismal resolution to a ..."
5. Putnam's Word Book: A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of by Louis Andrew Flemming (1913)
"... gelastic. laugh to scorn. deride, ridicule. launch, v. set afloat; set going,
start; throw, hurl; expatiate, descant. lava field, pedregal (Mexico and ..."
6. Putnam's Word Book: A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of by Louis Andrew Flemming (1919)
"... gelastic. laugh to scorn. deride, ridicule. launch, v. set afloat; set going,
start; throw, hurl; expatiate, descant. lava field, pedregal (Mexico and ..."
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