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Webster 1913 Edition


Cachinnatory

Ca-chin′na-to-ry

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Adj.
Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
Cachinnatory
buzzes of approval.
Carlyle.

Definition 2024


cachinnatory

cachinnatory

English

Adjective

cachinnatory (comparative more cachinnatory, superlative most cachinnatory)

  1. Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
    • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘King Pest’:
      But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.