Word Meanings - JESTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay

Related words: (words related to JESTING)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• JESTER
  1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled
• JEST
  geste, LL. gesta, orig., exploits, neut. pl. from L. gestus, p. p. of gerere to bear, carry, accomplish, perform; perh. orig., to make to come, bring, and perh. akin to E. come. Cf. Gest a deed, Register, 1. A deed; an action; a gest. The jests
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• JESTING
  Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay
• JESTINGLY
  In a jesting manner.
• JESTFUL
  Given to jesting; full of jokes.
• MAJESTICNESS
  The quality or state of being majestic. Oldenburg.
• MAJESTATIC; MAJESTATAL
  Majestic. E. Pocock. Dr. J. Scott.
• MAJESTICAL
  Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.
• MAJESTY
  The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the
• OUTJEST
  To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting. Shak.
• MAJESTIC
  Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand. "The majestic world." Shak. "Tethys'grave majestic pace." Milton. The least portions must be of the epic kind; all must be grave, majestic,
• LESE-MAJESTY
  See MAJESTY
• LEZE MAJESTY
  Any crime committed against the sovereign power. (more info) injured + majestas majesty; that is, crimen laesae
• JOCOSERIOUS
  Mingling mirth and seriousness. M. Green.