Definition of Jesting. Meaning of Jesting. Synonyms of Jesting

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Definition of Jesting

Jesting
Jesting Jest"ing, a. Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. --Macaulay.
Jesting
Jesting Jest"ing, n. The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry. --Eph. v. 4.
Jesting
Jest Jest, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jested; p. pr. & vb. n. Jesting.] 1. To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. --Shak. Syn: To joke; sport; rally. Usage: To Jest, Joke. One jests in order to make others laugh; one jokes to please himself. A jest is usually at the expense of another, and is often ill-natured; a joke is a sportive sally designed to promote good humor without wounding the feelings of its object. ``Jests are, therefore, seldom harmless; jokes frequently allowable. The most serious subject may be degraded by being turned into a jest.' --Crabb.

Meaning of Jesting from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- The mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe's jesting was the reason for the practice of ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria, a festival celebrated in...
- 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...
- After Parliament had been dissolved, Cromwell wrote a letter to a friend, jesting about the session's lack of productivity: I amongst other have indured...
- a derivation from barathrum, because they, so to speak, carried their jesting to market, even into the very depth (barathrum) of the shambles (barathrum...
- 301–316. doi:10.2307/1207404. JSTOR 1207404. Watts Estrich, Helen (1939). "Jesting Pilate Tells the Answer: Aldous Huxley". The Sewanee Review. 47 (1): 63–81...
- mock implausible word origins such as those proposed by Priscian. It is a jesting suggestion that since the word lucus (dark grove) has a similar appearance...
- A political cartoon from 1787 jesting about the notion of taxation affecting prostitutes...