- A joke is a
display of
humour in
which words are used
within a
specific and well-defined
narrative structure to make
people laugh and is
usually not meant...
- The
phrase Jesting Pilate can be: a
phrase coined by
Francis Bacon in the
opening sentence of his
essay Of
Truth (read at Wikisource) a name for the Biblical...
-
earliest known usage.
Aldous Huxley's book
Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, "What is Truth? said
jesting Pilate; and
would not stay for an answer", from...
- The
mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe's
jesting was the
reason for the
practice of
ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria, a
festival celebrated in...
- The All-Joking, All-Drunken
Synod of
Fools and
Jesters (1692–1725) was a club
founded by
Peter I of Russia. The
group included many of Peter's closest...
- a
derivation from barathrum,
because they, so to speak,
carried their jesting to market, even into the very
depth (barathrum) of the
shambles (barathrum...
- John in the New
Testament of
Christian Bible. It is
often referred to as "
jesting Pilate". In it,
Pontius Pilate questions Jesus'
claim that he is "witness...
-
their praise with
genuine reservations about the "irreverence and
profane jesting", as the New
Haven Daily Palladium for
November 17
phrased it. Many reviewers...
- A
political cartoon from 1787
jesting about the
notion of
taxation affecting prostitutes...
-
Retrieved November 15, 2020. Dargis,
Manohla (April 12, 2012). "Wry and
Subtle Jesting? Not Here,
Knucklehead (Published 2012)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
