cachinnate
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb To indulge in loud, continued laughter; to laugh immoderately.
Examples
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They reach at once and directly the instinctive sense of the ludicrous, and over them youth and age cachinnate together.
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Those who win have the best right to cachinnate and be joyous.
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They are seldom passionate or sulky -- either of which is bad, but the latter especially hateful, and deserving of many stripes -- and for the most part they joke and cachinnate with much emphasis and unction.
Note
This word comes from the Latin 'cacchino,' laugh aloud, which is imitative in origin.
