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gelastic, a. rare.|dʒɪˈlæstɪk|
[ad. Gr. γελαστικός, f. γελᾶν to laugh.]
Serving the function of laughter, risible. Also (humorous nonce-use) as n. pl., remedies operating by causing laughter.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1720) II. 167 My friendly Pill..causes all Complexions to laugh or smile..which it effects by dilating and expanding the gelastic Muscles, first of all discover'd by my self. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. ii. 410 A rising Clergyman publishing a Sermon against uninspir'd Prophecies..Apologetically..seem'd to excuse that venerable Cambrian Prelate's Prophetick Vein..not without a Gelastick deference to so great a name. 1838Southey Doctor V. 147 Happy man would be his dole, who, when he had made up his mind..to a dreadful course of drastics, should find that gelastics had been substituted. |