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  • We are accustomed to associated the word facetus with the idea of ‘wit’.

    Introduction 1912

  • Turning over further in our book, our eyes fell on the name of the Rev. Jonathan Bascom, of Orleans: "Senex emunctae naris, doctus, et auctor elegantium verborum, facetus, et dulcis festique sermonis."

    Cape Cod 1865

  • Y\r plus, intelligens, facetus, et hospital itatem sectans -

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • _facetus_ seems to have undergone the same transition in Latin, for

    History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • o splendor generis, decus mariti, 5 prudens, casta, decens, seuera, dulcis, atque ipsis senioribus sequenda, discordantia quae solent putari morum commoditate copulasti: nam uitae comites bonae fuerunt10 libertas grauis et pudor facetus. hinc est quod decimam tuae saluti uix actam trieteridem dolemus atque in temporibus uigentis aeui iniuste tibi iusta persoluta.

    Epitaph of Filimatia 1912

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