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Cachinnatory

Cachinnatory \Ca*chin"na*to*ry\, a. Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.

Cachinnatory buzzes of approval.
--Carlyle. [1913 Webster] ||

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cachinnatory

a. Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.

Usage examples of "cachinnatory".

I took him for anybody's skeleton, Death's ensign, with his cachinnatory skull, and the numbered ribs, and the extraordinary splay feet--in fact, the whole ungainly and shaky hobbledehoy which man is built on, and by whose image in his weaker moments he is haunted.

But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.