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Definition of Jested
1. jest [v] - See also: jest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jested
Literary usage of Jested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"I am your convert in the admiration of what I thought you jested when you
recommended; and if you please to be at my house on Thursday next, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... want of sleep ordinary symptoms, and by that means they are brought often so
low, so much altered and changed, that as ' he jested in the comedy, ..."
3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... want of sleep ordinary symptoms, and by that means they are brought often so
low, BO much altered and changed, that as 1 he jested in the comedy, ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1855)
"Le Heup said that Mr. Eusden was very ill, and so Greaves said I should put in
for poet laureat, upon which we jested; Le Heup talked exactly in the strain ..."
5. A History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Friedrich Kohlrausch (1852)
"It is related of him, that once, upon the occasion of a combat of wild beasts,
some one jested about his size, upon which he stepped into the arena, ..."
6. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"I am your convert in the admiration of what I thought you jested when you
recommended; and if you please to be at my house on Thursday next, ..."
7. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... want of sleep ordinary symptoms, and by that means they are brought often so
low, so much altered and changed, that as ' he jested in the comedy, ..."
8. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... want of sleep ordinary symptoms, and by that means they are brought often so
low, BO much altered and changed, that as 1 he jested in the comedy, ..."
9. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1855)
"Le Heup said that Mr. Eusden was very ill, and so Greaves said I should put in
for poet laureat, upon which we jested; Le Heup talked exactly in the strain ..."
10. A History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Friedrich Kohlrausch (1852)
"It is related of him, that once, upon the occasion of a combat of wild beasts,
some one jested about his size, upon which he stepped into the arena, ..."
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