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Definition of Cachinnations
1. cachinnation [n] - See also: cachinnation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cachinnations
Literary usage of Cachinnations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"cachinnations; nor eat ye nor drink where the corpse lieth therein, lest ye be
imitators of the heathenism which they there commit" (Thorpe, Ancient Laws ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, James Adam (1902)
"... though it is likely—just like a wave with its cachinnations — to swamp me with
laughter and disgrace.' Hartman would insert < де> before ..."
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)
"I'm laughing at you, just now, love," said he, redoubling his cachinnations.
And leaving him to enjoy his merriment alone, I touched Ruby with the whip, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"When encouraged to do so, he would laugh, and so droll were these canine
cachinnations, that they would set the household in a roar. ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"Hands palsied by convulsive cachinnations were too unsteady to hold the measure
and fit the colossus with a judgment. Now it is better understood how all ..."
6. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York by Solomon Northup (1855)
"... the cabin with cachinnations, holding his sides 'to prevent an explosion, and
the cause of his noisy mirth was the idea of my outstripping the hounds. ..."
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