lepidadj.
/ˈlɛpɪd/ Now rare.
Pleasant, jocose, facetious, amusing. Sometimes, Charming, elegant.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting
bourdfula1425
pleasant1530
facete1600
joculary1605
merrya1616
jocundary1618
lepidc1619
droll1623
humorousa1652
drollerical1656
humoursome1656
drollish1674
ludicrous1687
humorific1819
jestful1831
humoristica1834
c1619 S. D'Ewes in J. H. Marsden College Life Time James I (1851) 73 In guessing at the lepid derivation [of English words].
1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 84 From this Tonique motion Taurellus took his Lepid Paradox.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Terræ filius One that is allowed to make lepid or jesting speeches at an Act at Oxford.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed i. xxxiii. 149 Apes, the greater part black as jet, some small ones black and white, very lepid.
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) ii. 59 Some..figures..of Rhetorick..are not easily differenced from those sallies of wit, wherein the lepid way doth consist.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 22 He was..esteemed..for his lepid and jocular discourse.
1708 Brit. Apollo 28–30 July Solve the Above, ye Lepid Gods.
1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 339 These histories..are probably not many degrees elevated above the lepid fables of Mrs. Goose.
1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Two More Lett. on Catholics vii. 24 As for the joyous, and lepid consul, he jokes upon neutral flags and frauds [etc.].
Derivatives
ˈlepidly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > in a jesting manner
merrilyc1395
japinglya1420
pleasantly1552
jestingly1569
facetiously1598
facetely1620
joculatorily1623
sportively1631
lepidly1653
jocularly1655
jocundarily1660
ludicrouslya1678
drollingly1684
jokingly1700
jocosely1725
humorously1752
drolly1791
jest-wise1844
side-splittingly1859
japishly1888
jokily1976
1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) ii. 66 Lucian very lepidly derides an old Woman, who..would have her Haire of a yellow tincture.
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