| 单词 |
facetious |
| 释义 |
facetious, a.|fəˈsiːʃəs|
[ad. Fr. facétieux (cited from 16th c.), f. facétie, ad. L. facētia (see facetiæ) + -ous.]
†1. [After L. facetus.] Of style, manners, etc.: Polished and agreeable, urbane. Obs.
1592H. Chettle in Shaks. C. Praise 4 His facetious grace in writting which approoues his art.
2. Characterized by, or addicted to, pleasantry; jocose, jocular, waggish. Formerly often with laudatory sense: Witty, humorous, amusing; also, gay, sprightly.
a. of utterances, compositions, actions, etc.
1605Camden Rem. 203 It was then thought facetious. a1677Barrow Serm. xiv. Wks. 1741 I. 147 Facetious speech there serves onely to obstruct and entangle business. 1722Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. Pref. 11 Intermixed the serious part sometimes with a facetious accident. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. iv. 19 Aunty gave George a nudge with her finger designed to be immensely facetious. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 346 Facetious messages..passed between the besieged and the besiegers.
b. of persons, their qualities, etc.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. i. iii, My sweet facetious rascall. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 179, I am no way facetious nor disposed for the mirth..of Company. 1710Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 333 He was of a pleasant, facetious Temper. 1758Johnson Idler No. 33 ⁋2 Transmitted..by a facetious correspondent. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxiv. (C.D. ed.) 251 ‘Oh you terrible old man!’ cried the facetious Merry to herself. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 283 The mediæval carvers were many of them facetious fellows. |
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