Definition of Jocose

1. Adjective. Characterized by jokes and good humor.


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

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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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jocose

jockish
jocklike
jockney
jockneys
jocko
jockocracies
jockocracy
jockos
jocks
jockstraps
jocky
joco
joco-serious
jocolatte
jocose (current term)
jocosely
jocoseness
jocosenesses
jocoserious
jocosities
jocosity
jocote
jocotes
jocular
jocularities
jocularity
jocularly
jocularness
joculary

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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