Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Choice; fine.
  • Pleasant; cheerful; facetious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Archaic Facetious; witty; humorous.

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  • adjective archaic Facetious.

Etymologies

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Ultimately from Latin facētus, perhaps via Italian faceto.

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Examples

  • Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors; which being then all the fashion in the University, made his company the more acceptable.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Capellanus, &c. with the rest of those facete modern poets, have written in this kind, are but as so many symptoms of love.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For this reason, all those that otherwise approve of jests in some cases, and facete companions, (as who doth not?) let them laugh and be merry, rumpantur et illa

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3530] The whole nation beyond all other mortal men, is most given to banqueting and feasts; for they prolong them many hours together, with dainty cheer, exquisite music, and facete jesters, and afterwards they fall a dancing and courting their mistresses, till it be late in the night.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It goes without saying that he loved “his great namesake,” as he calls him, “Robert Burton, of melancholy and merry, of facete and juvenile memory.”

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • 'Dictum facete et contumeliose in Metellos antiquum Naevii est, "Fato Metelli Romai fiunt consules," cui tunc Metellus consul (B.C. 206) iratus versu responderat ...,

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • By the _Gazette_ report we conclude the Festival must have ended as many such meetings do; and never better expressed than by Lord Byron in his facete moments -- "then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then" -- but we have done.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832 Various

  • Hariolare. edepol senem Demaenetum lepidum fuisse nobis: 580 ut adsimulabat Sauream med esse quam facete! nimis aegre risum contini, ubi hospitem inclamavit, quod se absente mihi fidem habere noluisset. ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat atriensem.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Eugepae, Thalem talento non emam Milesium, nam ad sapientiam huius [8] nimius nugator fuit. ut facete orationem ad servitutem contulit.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • It goes without saying that he loved "his great namesake," as he calls him, "Robert Burton, of melancholy and merry, of facete and juvenile memory."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

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