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Definition of Jollify
1. Verb. Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities. "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"
Generic synonyms: Celebrate, Fete
Specialized synonyms: Carouse, Riot, Roister
Derivative terms: Jollification, Merrymaking, Racket, Revel, Reveller, Revelry, Wassailer
Definition of Jollify
1. to make jolly [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: jolly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jollify
Literary usage of Jollify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"MEMOIRS OF abstemious life, who seldom mingled in the politics or the jollify of
the college. But his knowledge of the world was confined to the university ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Brown, Robert Henley Eden Henley (1819)
"... and her father (the defendant William jollify e) took out a<l- ^— —- ministration
to her, and the plaintiff, apprehending that each of Mr. ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"Such a crow would jollify all London, from Mile-End (which is no end) to Primrose
Hill (where there ain't any primroses), and scatter the fog. ..."
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