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An act performed for amusement; a joke.
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Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
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Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
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A deed; an action; a gest.
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A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
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To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
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Surely you jest!
Charles entered Florence on the 17th of November 1494, and the citizens' fears evaporated in jests on the puny exterior of the "threatened scourge."
In Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages, at which Aesop is a guest, there are many jests on his original servile condition, but nothing derogatory is said about his personal appearance.
His jests, which were used by his enemies as a charge against him, seem to have originated in religious indifference, or perhaps in a spirit of inquiry which anticipated the ideas of a later age.
From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip.
Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced.
When there were quarrels, his kindly smile and well-timed jests reconciled the antagonists.
Sallies of wit, jests, good stories and enjoyment, were the soul of the banquet.
How soon do slanderous reports, vain jests, wanton speeches, creep into the heart !
A Texet'ij (" initiatory ceremony ") of women by a woman also took place at Eleusis, characterized by obscene jests and the use of phallic emblems. The sacramental meal on this occasion consisted of the produce of land and sea, certain things (pomegranates, honey, eggs) being forbidden for mystical reasons.
The Apophthegms, though hardly deserving Macaulay's praise of being the best collection of jests in the world, contain a number of those significant anecdotes which Bacon used with such effect in his other writings.
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