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Definition of Merriest
1. merry [adj] - See also: merry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merriest
Literary usage of Merriest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"... as Plato calls him; the strongest and merriest of all the gods, according to
Alcinous and .... merriest ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"... is the merriest species of the creation ; all above or below him are serious ;
he sees things in a different light from other beings, uml finds his ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"... and were always present to him even in his merriest moods, and it was evidently
under this feeling that he said—more in earnest than in joke, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"... above Jupiter himself; Magnus Daemon, as Plato calls him, the strongest and
merriest of all the gods according to Alcinous and "Athenaeus. ..."
5. Oliver Cromwell: An Historical Romance. by Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith (1840)
"... umphant clangour of their military music waking the merriest echoes, behind
their adored leader !—and above all, he heard the thundering acclamations of ..."
6. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"... his adventures in France, " was my poor Turkish brain puzzled, on discovering
the favourite pastime of a nation reckoned the merriest in the world. ..."
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