risibleadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈrɪzᵻbl/,

/ˈrʌɪzᵻbl/, U.S.

/ˈrɪzəb(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s risyble, 1600s– risible.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French risible; Latin risibilis.

Etymology: < Middle French risible that provokes laughter, laughable (c1370), capable of laughing (1550) and its etymon post-classical Latin risibilis capable of laughing (4th cent.), laughable (5th cent.) < classical Latin rīs- , past participial stem of rīdēre to laugh (see rident adj.) + -ibilis -ible suffix. Compare Spanish risible (16th cent.), Portuguese risível (1692), Italian risibile (1294).

A. adj.

1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined to laugh; given to laughing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective] > inclined to laugh

risible1557

laughter-loving1592

laughsome1612

ridibundal1652

laughy1811

laughful1825

laughterful1874

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes ii. i. f. 80^v/2 A creature, the whiche by nature was sociable, communycable, and risyble.

1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham xxxvii. f. 145 That honest and lawful ioy..incident to mans nature, whereof, he is called a risible creature.

1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick 123 A man is risible, and every risible thing is a man.

1731 A. Hill Advice to Poets Ep. Ded. p. x What must risible Foreigners have thought of the Court of King William?

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 99 He is the most risible misanthrope I ever met with.

1834 J. Hewson Christ Rejected (ed. 2) i. 79 Every eye..anxiously endeavoring to get the last peering view at this wonderful and mysterious prisoner ; and especially all the risible spectators in the galleries of the court.

1897 T. Hardy Well-Beloved i. 64 She was half risible, half concerned.

1908 W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career x. 148 The risible gentleman laughed at the proposed legislation, about which he made the song.

1949 C. Morley Ironing Board 84 Heaven is not for pallid saints but raging and risible men.

1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 16 The property of man, that he is risible, follows from his nature with absolute necessity.

2. Relating to laughter; used in laughing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective]

risible1671

gelastica1704

risorial1855

1671 J. Newton Introd. Art Logick i. ii. 6 The Risible faculty in man.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxvii. 170 His muscles have never yet been able to recover a risible tone.

1754 Connoisseur No. 1. ⁋3 He has gain'd such an entire conquest over the risible muscles, that he hardly vouchsafes at any time to smile.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. ii. 83 The dutch negroes at Communipaw, who..are famous for their risible powers.

1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (ed. 2) 451 The cricket was too much for his risible nerves.

1862 C. Stretton Mem. Chequered Life II. 134 So totally had he lost all control over his risible faculties.

1918 W. L. Courtney Old Saws & Mod. Instances 145 The idea of turning so extremely material a person as Mr. Horner into a fairy certainly appeals to our risible faculties.

1969 D. Wright Deafness viii. 116 The mounting tempo, the crinkle of risible muscles as the nub of the joke approaches, are easily read warnings to be on hand to laugh at the pay-off.

1997 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 26 Oct. j8 Some say that the risible faculty is what distinguishes us from the beasts, laughing hyenas notwithstanding.

3. Capable of provoking laughter; laughable, ludicrous, comical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > capable of

risible1727

1727 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. July (1966) II. 81 There are some circumstances extreamly risible in these affairs.

1755 Man No. 6. 2 The risible subjects are either real or apparent absurdities.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 577 The jokes, though not of the most..refined sort, are extremely queer and risible.

1824 J. Gilchrist Etymol. Interpreter 107 Foreigners..get laughed at as if they were guilty of some risible blunder.

1884 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 194 The mental toilet of most of us is..almost as risible as was that of this savage Court.

1915 Times 10 Dec. 11/3 Why is it that we so often find our laughter slow to come over scenes and situations that would seem a priori to be particularly risible?

1955 S. H. Adams Grandfather Stories 300 A poppet [sic] show of Punch and Judy, mortal risible.

1971 S. Heaney in Listener 23 Dec. 858/1 When you think of the corpses in the rubble of McGurk's Bar such caution is far from risible.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 5 Jan. 159/2 A risible, cliché-saturated plot..features everything from the dead mom coming back as a ghost to a campy villain-introduction scene.

B. n.

1. With the. The capacity to provoke laughter; the ludicrous element or aspect of something.

ΚΠ

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. viii. 129 The risible in such incidents springs from the glaring absurdity of indulging some such bent of the disposition.

1784 New Spect. No. 7. 3 Exhibiting the serious and the risible in many points of view.

a1834 C. Lamb Wks. (1857) 287 It was not every week that a fashion of pink stockings came up; but mostly, instead of it, some rugged, untractable subject; some topic impossible to be contorted into the risible.

1870 R. Reece Whittington, Junior, & his Sensation Cat iii. 26 We've introduced some facts of history; Which while they mix the useful with the risible, Excuse there being but one vessel visible.

1924 C. H. Grandgent Getting Laugh i. 4 This doctrine may be and has been criticized, on the ground that it is too narrow; but it is original, and it accounts for a good part of the risible.

1993 SFRA Rev. May–June 77 If you don't have a well developed sense of the risible, you'll have no patience with Castle Spellbound.

2. In plural. Chiefly U.S. The risible faculties or muscles (see A. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > the risible faculties

risibles1785

risibilities1805

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun]

sphincter1578

raiser1588

in-muscle?1609

oblique1612

abducens1615

abductor1615

adductor1615

antagonist1615

bender1615

depressor1615

extender1615

flexor1615

levator1615

quadratus1615

rectus1615

retractor1615

sphincter-muscle1615

accelerator1638

bicepsa1641

elevator1646

adducent1649

lifter1649

rotator1657

flector1666

contractor1682

dilater1683

orbicularis palpebrarum1694

transverse muscle1696

tensor muscle1704

biventer1706

extensor1713

attollent1728

constrictor1741

dilator1741

risibles1785

orbicularis oculi1797

obliquus1799

erector1828

extensor-muscle1830

compressor1836

trans-muscle1836

antagonizer1844

motor1846

evertor1848

inflector1851

protractor1853

prime mover1860

orbicular1872

transversalis1872

invertor1875

skeletal muscle1877

dilatator1878

occlusor muscle1878

sphincter1879

pilomotor1892

agonist1896

1785 M. Cutler Let. 28 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 227 Your account..has distorted my risibles and given my sides a hearty shake.

1838 Southern Literary Messenger May 342/1 His portrayals of the foibles and vices of man, while they excite the risibles, will carry with them a moral of precious value.

1866 Athenæum 864/3 His risibles were much affected.

1873 W. D. Whitney Oriental & Ling. Stud. 127 If the risibles of classical philologers are so easily provoked.

1946 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 18 Jan. a5/2 I..did not dare to meet Katharine's eyes, for I knew the expression in them would set my risibles in motion.

1971 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 2 Dec. 8 c/5 My soul, but their johnny-jump-up reactions tickle my risibles.

2004 D. P. Nord Faith in Reading 162 It is truly melancholy to see so many minds employed in catering for the risibles and lachrymals of weak men and silly women.

Derivatives

ˈrisibleness n. the faculty of laughing.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Risibleness, laughing faculty.

1852 J. J. Jarves Parisian Sights & French Princ. i. 20 French politeness was proof even against this trial of risibleness; but I must confess to my own inability to withstand smiling.

2000 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 17 Feb. 4 Next time you inject a bit of sarcastic risibleness into your column, you (or at least your editor) might also want to check to see that the Web site you poke fun at has been restored before you hyperlink to it in your electronic version.

ˈrisibly adv. in a risible manner.

ΚΠ

1771 Contemplative Man I. iii. vi. 220 It is insisted on that Tears are an evident Sign of Grief, I say, not without they are accompanied by a sorrowful Countenance; for Onions, Mustard, Horse-reddish, &c. will frequently force that Fluid from the Eyes, when the Face is most risibly disposed.

1846 Q. Rev. Dec. 196 The mother-wit of the girl and the doting folly of the dupe are most risibly contrasted.

1922 Sci. Monthly Oct. 344 Laughter at a person is..an assertion of superiority to him, and the youths may not risibly make such assertion.

2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? ix. 120 Despite what Rupert chooses to think, his former pa-in-law regards him as a risibly poor physical specimen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	risible
释义	risibleadj.n. Brit. /ˈrɪzᵻbl/, /ˈrʌɪzᵻbl/, U.S. /ˈrɪzəb(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s risyble, 1600s– risible. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French risible; Latin risibilis. Etymology: < Middle French risible that provokes laughter, laughable (c1370), capable of laughing (1550) and its etymon post-classical Latin risibilis capable of laughing (4th cent.), laughable (5th cent.) < classical Latin rīs- , past participial stem of rīdēre to laugh (see rident adj.) + -ibilis -ible suffix. Compare Spanish risible (16th cent.), Portuguese risível (1692), Italian risibile (1294). A. adj. 1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined to laugh; given to laughing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective] > inclined to laugh risible1557 laughter-loving1592 laughsome1612 ridibundal1652 laughy1811 laughful1825 laughterful1874 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes ii. i. f. 80^v/2 A creature, the whiche by nature was sociable, communycable, and risyble. 1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham xxxvii. f. 145 That honest and lawful ioy..incident to mans nature, whereof, he is called a risible creature. 1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick 123 A man is risible, and every risible thing is a man. 1731 A. Hill Advice to Poets Ep. Ded. p. x What must risible Foreigners have thought of the Court of King William? 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 99 He is the most risible misanthrope I ever met with. 1834 J. Hewson Christ Rejected (ed. 2) i. 79 Every eye..anxiously endeavoring to get the last peering view at this wonderful and mysterious prisoner ; and especially all the risible spectators in the galleries of the court. 1897 T. Hardy Well-Beloved i. 64 She was half risible, half concerned. 1908 W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career x. 148 The risible gentleman laughed at the proposed legislation, about which he made the song. 1949 C. Morley Ironing Board 84 Heaven is not for pallid saints but raging and risible men. 1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 16 The property of man, that he is risible, follows from his nature with absolute necessity. 2. Relating to laughter; used in laughing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective] risible1671 gelastica1704 risorial1855 1671 J. Newton Introd. Art Logick i. ii. 6 The Risible faculty in man. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxvii. 170 His muscles have never yet been able to recover a risible tone. 1754 Connoisseur No. 1. ⁋3 He has gain'd such an entire conquest over the risible muscles, that he hardly vouchsafes at any time to smile. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. ii. 83 The dutch negroes at Communipaw, who..are famous for their risible powers. 1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (ed. 2) 451 The cricket was too much for his risible nerves. 1862 C. Stretton Mem. Chequered Life II. 134 So totally had he lost all control over his risible faculties. 1918 W. L. Courtney Old Saws & Mod. Instances 145 The idea of turning so extremely material a person as Mr. Horner into a fairy certainly appeals to our risible faculties. 1969 D. Wright Deafness viii. 116 The mounting tempo, the crinkle of risible muscles as the nub of the joke approaches, are easily read warnings to be on hand to laugh at the pay-off. 1997 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 26 Oct. j8 Some say that the risible faculty is what distinguishes us from the beasts, laughing hyenas notwithstanding. 3. Capable of provoking laughter; laughable, ludicrous, comical. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > capable of risible1727 1727 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. July (1966) II. 81 There are some circumstances extreamly risible in these affairs. 1755 Man No. 6. 2 The risible subjects are either real or apparent absurdities. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 577 The jokes, though not of the most..refined sort, are extremely queer and risible. 1824 J. Gilchrist Etymol. Interpreter 107 Foreigners..get laughed at as if they were guilty of some risible blunder. 1884 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 194 The mental toilet of most of us is..almost as risible as was that of this savage Court. 1915 Times 10 Dec. 11/3 Why is it that we so often find our laughter slow to come over scenes and situations that would seem a priori to be particularly risible? 1955 S. H. Adams Grandfather Stories 300 A poppet [sic] show of Punch and Judy, mortal risible. 1971 S. Heaney in Listener 23 Dec. 858/1 When you think of the corpses in the rubble of McGurk's Bar such caution is far from risible. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 5 Jan. 159/2 A risible, cliché-saturated plot..features everything from the dead mom coming back as a ghost to a campy villain-introduction scene. B. n. 1. With the. The capacity to provoke laughter; the ludicrous element or aspect of something. ΚΠ 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. viii. 129 The risible in such incidents springs from the glaring absurdity of indulging some such bent of the disposition. 1784 New Spect. No. 7. 3 Exhibiting the serious and the risible in many points of view. a1834 C. Lamb Wks. (1857) 287 It was not every week that a fashion of pink stockings came up; but mostly, instead of it, some rugged, untractable subject; some topic impossible to be contorted into the risible. 1870 R. Reece Whittington, Junior, & his Sensation Cat iii. 26 We've introduced some facts of history; Which while they mix the useful with the risible, Excuse there being but one vessel visible. 1924 C. H. Grandgent Getting Laugh i. 4 This doctrine may be and has been criticized, on the ground that it is too narrow; but it is original, and it accounts for a good part of the risible. 1993 SFRA Rev. May–June 77 If you don't have a well developed sense of the risible, you'll have no patience with Castle Spellbound. 2. In plural. Chiefly U.S. The risible faculties or muscles (see A. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > the risible faculties risibles1785 risibilities1805 the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun] sphincter1578 raiser1588 in-muscle?1609 oblique1612 abducens1615 abductor1615 adductor1615 antagonist1615 bender1615 depressor1615 extender1615 flexor1615 levator1615 quadratus1615 rectus1615 retractor1615 sphincter-muscle1615 accelerator1638 bicepsa1641 elevator1646 adducent1649 lifter1649 rotator1657 flector1666 contractor1682 dilater1683 orbicularis palpebrarum1694 transverse muscle1696 tensor muscle1704 biventer1706 extensor1713 attollent1728 constrictor1741 dilator1741 risibles1785 orbicularis oculi1797 obliquus1799 erector1828 extensor-muscle1830 compressor1836 trans-muscle1836 antagonizer1844 motor1846 evertor1848 inflector1851 protractor1853 prime mover1860 orbicular1872 transversalis1872 invertor1875 skeletal muscle1877 dilatator1878 occlusor muscle1878 sphincter1879 pilomotor1892 agonist1896 1785 M. Cutler Let. 28 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 227 Your account..has distorted my risibles and given my sides a hearty shake. 1838 Southern Literary Messenger May 342/1 His portrayals of the foibles and vices of man, while they excite the risibles, will carry with them a moral of precious value. 1866 Athenæum 864/3 His risibles were much affected. 1873 W. D. Whitney Oriental & Ling. Stud. 127 If the risibles of classical philologers are so easily provoked. 1946 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 18 Jan. a5/2 I..did not dare to meet Katharine's eyes, for I knew the expression in them would set my risibles in motion. 1971 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 2 Dec. 8 c/5 My soul, but their johnny-jump-up reactions tickle my risibles. 2004 D. P. Nord Faith in Reading 162 It is truly melancholy to see so many minds employed in catering for the risibles and lachrymals of weak men and silly women. Derivatives ˈrisibleness n. the faculty of laughing. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Risibleness, laughing faculty. 1852 J. J. Jarves Parisian Sights & French Princ. i. 20 French politeness was proof even against this trial of risibleness; but I must confess to my own inability to withstand smiling. 2000 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 17 Feb. 4 Next time you inject a bit of sarcastic risibleness into your column, you (or at least your editor) might also want to check to see that the Web site you poke fun at has been restored before you hyperlink to it in your electronic version. ˈrisibly adv. in a risible manner. ΚΠ 1771 Contemplative Man I. iii. vi. 220 It is insisted on that Tears are an evident Sign of Grief, I say, not without they are accompanied by a sorrowful Countenance; for Onions, Mustard, Horse-reddish, &c. will frequently force that Fluid from the Eyes, when the Face is most risibly disposed. 1846 Q. Rev. Dec. 196 The mother-wit of the girl and the doting folly of the dupe are most risibly contrasted. 1922 Sci. Monthly Oct. 344 Laughter at a person is..an assertion of superiority to him, and the youths may not risibly make such assertion. 2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? ix. 120 Despite what Rupert chooses to think, his former pa-in-law regards him as a risibly poor physical specimen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1557
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