gelasticadj.
/dʒɪˈlastɪk/ rare.
Serving the function of laughter, risible. Also (humorous nonce-use) as n. plural, remedies operating by causing laughter.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective]
risible1671
gelastica1704
risorial1855
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 12 My Friendly Pill..causes all Complections to Laugh or Smile..which it effects, by dilating and expanding the Gelastic Muscles, first of all discover'd by my self.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 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.
1838 R. Southey 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.
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