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- English Word Jest Definition The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
- English Word Jest Definition To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
- English Word Jest Definition To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
- English Word Jested Definition of Jest
- English Word Jester Definition A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
- English Word Jester Definition A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
- English Word Jestful Definition Given to jesting; full of jokes.
- English Word Jesting Definition of Jest
- English Word Jesting Definition Sportive; not serious; fit for jests.
- English Word Jesting Definition The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry.
- English Word Jestingly Definition In a jesting manner.
- English Word Jesuit Definition One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.
- English Word Jesuit Definition Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.
- English Word Jesuited Definition Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits.
- English Word Jesuitess Definition One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
- English Word Jesuitic Definition Alt. of Jesuitical
- English Word Jesuitical Definition Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
- English Word Jesuitical Definition Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
- English Word Jesuitically Definition In a jesuitical manner.
- English Word Jesuitism Definition The principles and practices of the Jesuits.
- English Word Jesuitism Definition Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
- English Word Jesuitocracy Definition Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country.
- English Word Jesuitry Definition Jesuitism; subtle argument.
- English Word Jesus Definition The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation.
- English Word Jet Definition Same as 2d Get.
- English Word Jet Definition A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
- English Word Jet Definition A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
- English Word Jet Definition Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- English Word Jet Definition The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
- English Word Jet Definition To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.