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risible, a. and n.|ˈrɪzɪb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. rīsibilis, f. rīs-, ppl. stem of rīdēre to laugh: see -ible. So F. risible (14th c.), Sp. risible, It. risibile, Pg. risivel.]
A. adj.
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined or given to laughter.
1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. 80 b, A creature the which, by nature, was sociable, communicable, and risyble. 1606J. Carpenter Solomon's Solace xxxvii. 145 That honest and lawful ioy..incident to mans nature, whereof, he is called a risible creature. 1654Z. Coke Logick 123 A man is risible, and every risible thing is a man. 1731A. Hill Advice to Poets Epist. p. x, What must risible Foreigners have thought of the Court of King William? 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1806) VI. 51 He is the most risible misanthrope I ever met with.
2. Pertaining to, or used in, laughter.
1747Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 188 His muscles have never yet been able to recover a risible tone. 1754Connoisseur No. 1 ⁋3 He has gain'd such an entire conquest over the risible muscles, that he hardly vouchsafes at any time to smile. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1820) 106 The Dutch negroes at Communipaw, who..are famous for their risible powers. 1820H. Matthews Diary Invalid (ed. 2) 451 The cricket was too much for his risible nerves. 1862C. Stretton Chequered Life II. 134 So totally had he lost all control over his risible faculties.
3. Capable of exciting laughter; laughable, ludicrous, comical.
1727Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. cxlvi. IV. 173 There is something extremely risible in these affairs. 1755Man No. 6. 2 The risible subjects are either real or apparent absurdities. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. x. 577 The jokes though not of the most..refined sort are extremely queer and risible. 1824J. Gilchrist Etym. Interpr. 107 Foreigners..get laughed at as if they were guilty of some risible blunder. 1884Birrell Obiter Dicta 194 The mental toilet of most of us is..almost as risible as was that of this savage Court.
absol.1784New Spect. No. 7. 3 Exhibiting the serious and the risible in many points of view.
B. n. pl. The risible faculties or muscles (see A. 2). Chiefly U.S.
1785M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) II. 227 Your account..has distorted my risibles and given my sides a hearty shake. 1866Athenæum 864/3 His risibles were much affected. 1873Whitney Oriental & Ling. Stud. 127 If the risibles of classical philologers are so easily provoked.
Hence ˈrisibleness, ‘laughing faculty’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1727); ˈrisibly adv., ‘in a risible manner; laughably’ (Webster, 1847). |