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lepid, a. Now rare.|ˈlɛpɪd|
[ad. L. lepid-us.]
Pleasant, jocose, facetious, amusing. Sometimes, Charming, elegant.
1619Sir S. D'Ewes College Life (1891) 73 In guessing at the lepid derivation [of English words]. 1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. i. 84 From this Tonique motion Taurellus took his Lepid Paradox. 1658Phillips, Terræ filius, one that is allowed to make lepid or jesting speeches at an Act at Oxford. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. i. xxxiii. 149 Apes, the greater part black as jet, some small ones black and white, very lepid. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 142 Some..figures..of rhetorick..are not easily differenced from those sallies of wit wherein the lepid way doth consist. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 22 He was..esteemed..for his lepid and jocular discourse. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 49. 3/2 Solve the Above, ye Lepid Gods. 1804Edin. Rev. III. 339 These histories..are probably not many degrees elevated above the lepid fables of Mrs. Goose. 1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 163/1 As for the joyous and lepid consul, he jokes upon neutral flags and frauds [etc.].
Hence ˈlepidly adv.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. (1653) 66 Lucian very lepidly derides an old Woman, who..would have her Haire of a yellow tincture. |