Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to cachinnation; relating to or consisting in loud laughter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of, or accompanied by,
immoderate laughter .
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Examples
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I know not whether it be prudent to come to terms with any man, however stentorian his lungs, or flexible his facial organs, with a view to engage him as a cachinnatory machine.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various
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We have re-perused them with renewed delight, and awakened again the echoes of our silent sanctum, in the excess of our cachinnatory enjoyment.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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Captain Morrill urbanely apologized to Mr. Glover, and engaged himself to make it right in the morning; whereupon Mr. Glover withdrew in cachinnatory convulsions.
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Sir, -- Seeing in the first number of your paper an announcement from Mr. Thomas Hood, that he was in want of a laugher, I beg to offer my services in that comic capacity, and to hand you my card and certificates of my cachinnatory powers.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various
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At length, by the enormous exertions the last duty imposed upon me, I sunk into a hopeless state of cachinnatory impotence: my risible muscles refused to perform their office, and I lost mine.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various
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Such emotional superlatives merely create in the reader a cachinnatory revulsion.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916
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Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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The laughing jackasses laughed their loudest, almost frightening her with their weird cachinnatory chorus; and the laughing hyæna screamed his sepulchral ha-ha-ha's so that he was heard all the way to Primrose Hill.
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And, in the case of certain monkeys, the action of the facial muscles was accompanied by cachinnatory sounds.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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Dave took off his fox-skin cap after letting his pole fall into the hollow of his arm, and scratched his head before uttering a low cachinnatory laugh that was not pleasant to the ear.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
deliasailed commented on the word cachinnatory
It can be obnoxious when eating in a restaurant, and a table near yours is filled with cachinnatory laughter. However, when you're part of it, it is great fun.
June 30, 2008