Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make jolly; intoxicate to a slight degree; make ‘happy.’
- To become ‘jolly’; be exhilarated by drink.
WordNet 3.0
- v. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
Examples
“Certain motifs like hearts and polka dots can jollify, but it's really quite personal, and could be something as simple as a favorite snapshot stuck into the edge of a mirror or a child's drawing framed and hung "seriously" among other pictures.”
The Wall Street Journal: 10 Odd, Yet Essential, Elements of Style
“Virginia Johnson/Random House Certain motifs like hearts and polka dots can jollify, but it's really quite personal.”
The Wall Street Journal: 10 Odd, Yet Essential, Elements of Style
“For here shall he find the good shelter of friends like-minded with himself, and of hospitable turn, having no cause to hurry any more than he has, all too wise to command their own ships; and here will they all jollify together while the sky holds a cloud or the locker”
“Tain't natchul fer folks not to git together an 'laugh an' be happy an 'fergit dere quarrels an' dere troubles an 'jollify deyselves.”
“To-night you may jollify; but after that you are under strict discipline, for a month at least.”
“For here shall he find the good shelter of friends like-minded with himself, and of hospitable turn, having no cause to hurry any more than he has, all too wise to command their own ships; and here will they all jollify together while the sky holds a cloud or the locker a drop.”
“But they will also encounter jarring attempts to jollify the past - as, for example, when Murphy introduces the founder of the Dominican Order as "the man celebrated in the 1963 song Dominique by the Singing Nuns" .”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
“They'd use them to jollify a wall, or bridge, or subway train.”
“Some of his troubles revolve around the still-promiscuous love-life that continues to jollify the Hollywood gossip columns; others centre on his commercial interests, and are being played out in the business pages.”
“Faith, divine, Chrilt the object of this equally with the Father, « John 14. roes not jollify as a work, n Rom. how it juftifies, n Gal.”
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