jocus

Both seem to me to be foreshadowed in the following '_Sacerdotis jocus non illepidus_';

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Indeed he had Scholarship enough, and Wit too much: _Ejus Sermo_ (saith _Pitz. _) _salsus in mordacem, risus in opprobrium, jocus in amaritudinem_.

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

Reports, Slack _versus_ Small wood, it is said that _primus {67} strocus sine jocus, absolutus est provokus_.

A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893

At first, as superficially stated in the tale, Lanfranc had taken part against the marriage of William with Matilda of Flanders -- a marriage clearly contrary to the formal canons of the Roman Church, and was banished by the fiery Duke; though William's displeasure gave way at "the decent joke" (jocus decens), recorded in the text.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yÄcati he asks

doggdot.us 2009

Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yÄcati he asks

doggdot.us 2009

Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yÄcati he asks

Slashdot 2009

&c. jocus et ludus, are pretty pastimes, as Ludovicus Vives notes.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

"the decent joke" (jocus decens), recorded in the text.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838