Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pleasant; jocose.

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

  • adjective rare Pleasant; jocose.

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  • adjective obsolete pleasant; jocose

Etymologies

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Latin lepidus.

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Examples

  • _Underwoods_, _Epigrams_, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • As for the joyous and lepid consul, he jokes upon neutral flags and frauds, jokes upon Irish rebels, jokes upon northern and western and southern foes, and gives himself no trouble upon any subject; nor is the mediocrity of the idolatrous deputy of the slightest use.

    Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889

  • Underwoods, Epigrams, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

  • Ignorance has not been specific to any generation. lepid, it has always been thus.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Ignorance has not been specific to any generation. lepid, it has always been thus.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Ignorance has not been specific to any generation. lepid, it has always been thus.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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