| 单词 | to make pleasant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make pleasant a. Humorous, jocular, facetious; merry, light-hearted. †to make pleasant: to be festive, make merry (obsolete). Now archaic and rare. Sc. National Dict. (1968) records this sense as still in use in 1966. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective] blitheOE merryOE golikc1175 lustya1225 playfulc1225 jollyc1305 merrya1350 jocund?c1380 galliardc1386 in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395 mirthfula1400 baudec1400 gayc1400 jovy1426 jocantc1440 crank1499 envoisiesa1500 as merry as a cricket1509 pleasant1530 frolic?1548 jolious1575 gleeful1586 buxom1590 gleesome1590 festival1592 laughter-loving1592 disposed1593 jucund1596 heartsomec1600 jovial1607 jovialist1610 laughsome1612 jocundary1618 gaysome1633 chirpinga1637 jovialissime1652 airy1654 festivous1654 hilarous1659 spleneticala1661 cocket1671 cranny1673 high1695 vogie1715 raffing?1719 festal1724 as merry (or lively) as a grig1728 hearty1755 tittuping1772 festive1774 fun-loving1776 mirthsome1787 Falstaffian1809 cranky1811 laughful1825 as lively as a cricket1832 hurrah1835 hilarious1838 Bacchic1865 laughterful1874 griggish1879 banzai1929 slap-you-on-the-back1932 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] to make feast?c1225 to make merryc1330 merrymakec1395 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509 to make pleasant1530 gaud1532 to play the goodfellow1563 company1591 junket1607 rage1979 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 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 321/1 Pleasante propre, galliarde. 1545 Primer Kynges Maiestie (STC 16034) sig. DD.i Aryse, Lord, let..the righteous and Christes disciples make pleasaunt & mery. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 134v The pleasaunt wanderer perceaued that the Christians ceased to pursue hym. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 45 Which kinde of men, a pleasant writer scoffing at, sayth, That that meate is vnpleasant in tast, which smelleth of the smoake. 1638 W. Berkeley Lost Lady v. 50 Her. Evgenio and he are of such equall tempers, I shall suspect he has dissembled too. Mi. Oh you are pleasant. c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1681) 24 All..the Contentments and Ease which some pleasant men have related of the land of Cocquany. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 246. ⁋9 Dick Reptile, who does not want Humour, is very pleasant at our Club when he sees an old Fellow touchy at being laughed at for any Thing that is not in the Mode. 1770 J. Armstrong Forced Marriage iv. iii, in Misc. II. 96 You're pleasant, dear Alphonso. Ha! ha! ha! 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 169 Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit. a1880 T. T. Stoddart Crown Jewel (1898) ii. i Ella. Should this be all, it will enliven you. A jest below his roof is now-a-days Of rare occurrence. Gon. You are pleasant, madam. 1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick iii There wasna his maik at waddins an' kirsenins, he was that joky an' pleesant. 1911 K. Tynan New Poems 15 God made Him birds in a pleasant humour; Tired of planets and suns was He. < as lemmas |
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