Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to cachinnation; relating to or consisting in loud laughter.
Wiktionary
- adj. Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
Examples
“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
“Captain Morrill urbanely apologized to Mr. Glover, and engaged himself to make it right in the morning; whereupon Mr. Glover withdrew in cachinnatory convulsions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“Such emotional superlatives merely create in the reader a cachinnatory revulsion.”
“Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.”
“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.”
“And, in the case of certain monkeys, the action of the facial muscles was accompanied by cachinnatory sounds.”
“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.”
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deliasailed 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. Jun 30, 2008