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facete, a. rare in mod. use.|fəˈsiːt|
Also 7 faceit.
[ad. L. facēt-us graceful, pleasing, witty. Cf. OF. facet.]
1. = facetious. arch.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 662 Pleasant demaunds and facete jests. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. iv, Lodovicus Suessanus a facete companion, disswaded him to the contrary. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year (1850) 292 A facete discourse..can refresh the spirit. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 259 He was a man of..a facete and affable countenance. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy vi. v, I will have him..cheerful, facete, jovial. 1830tr. Aristophanes' Acharnians 34 By Jove! these two hogs are facete ones! 1863Sala Capt. Dang. II. ix. 310 Such a Ruffian..could maintain an appearance of a facete disposition to the last.
b. absol.
1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 162/1 If he would..consider the facete and the playful to be the basis of his character. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 257 One or two attempts at raillery and the facete are indeed deplorable.
†2. After Latin usage: Elegant, graceful, polished. Obs.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 29 Leicester..was much the more facete Courtier. Ibid. 56 He was so facete and choice in his phrase and stile. 1662Bagshaw in Acc. Baxter's Suspension 45 A man..of so Elegant and Facete a Style.
Hence † faˈcetely adv. Obs., in a witty or humorous manner, pleasantly. † faˈceteness, the quality of being witty or humorous; ‘wit, pleasant representation’ (J.).
1619Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent (1676) 72 That which facetely was spoken by Erasmus. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. ii. ii. 558 As Iames Lernutius hath facetely expressed in an elegant Ode. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxviii. 361 Poole facetely excused the matter. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 170 Parables..breed delight of hearing, by reason of that faceteness and wittiness which is many times found in them. |