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Definition of Jocose
1. Adjective. Characterized by jokes and good humor.
Similar to: Humorous, Humourous
Derivative terms: Jocoseness, Jocosity, Jocosity, Jocularity, Jocularity, Jocularity, Joke, Joke
Definition of Jocose
1. a. Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
Definition of Jocose
1. Adjective. given to jest; habitually jolly ¹
2. Adjective. playful; characterized by joking ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jocose
1. humorous [adj] : JOCOSELY [adv] - See also: humorous
Medical Definition of Jocose
1. Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. "To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary." (Shaftesbury) "All . . . Jocose or comical airs should be excluded." (I. Watts) Synonym: Jocular, facetious, witty, merry, pleasant, waggish, sportive, funny, comical. Jocose"ly, Jocose"ness, "Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity." (Broome) "He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life." (Buckle) Origin: L jocosus, fr. Jocus joke. See Joke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Jocose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil by Theodore Parker (1855)
"These and various other pleasant charges, Mr. Hallett, in the jocose manner of
indictments, alleges against me ; wherefrom I must defend myself, ..."
2. The Literature of the Georgian Era by William Minto (1895)
"... SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT — HIS jocose AND MAUDLIN VEINS THE great poets who made
the beginning of the nineteenth century famous appeared above the horizon one ..."
3. Outing (1892)
"We would hobnob by the frolicsome flames until the very echoes became jocose and
laughed aloud. Unable to reproduce the raciness of our camp palaver, ..."
4. The Lambs: Their Lives, Their Friends, and Their Correspondence; New by William Carew Hazlitt (1897)
"He has cast aside all thought for things indifferent and external, and all power
and desire to indulge in any allusions of a playful, much less jocose, ..."
5. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... appeared undaunted,- lie preserved his jocose, satirical temper to the last nwc.
of his life,. He received the notice of his death-wirr. without the ..."
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