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  • adjective Alternative spelling of humoristic.

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  • Lepori is now involved in a humouristic comic called Fisietto, like I mentioned in this post:

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  • We miss the odeur du sang which taints the parfums du harem; also the humouristic tale and the Rabelaisian outbreak which relieve and throw out into strong relief the splendour of Empire and the havoc of Time.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • His endeavour to ape a deliberate gravity while he told the tale, roused Agostino's humouristic ire.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • His endeavour to ape a deliberate gravity while he told the tale, roused Agostino's humouristic ire.

    Vittoria — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • The sense of the Comic is much blunted by habits of punning and of using humouristic phrase: the trick of employing Johnsonian polysyllables to treat of the infinitely little.

    Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The sense of the Comic is much blunted by habits of punning and of using humouristic phrase: the trick of employing Johnsonian polysyllables to treat of the infinitely little.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • His endeavour to ape a deliberate gravity while he told the tale, roused Agostino's humouristic ire.

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • We miss the odeur du sang which taints the parfums du harem; also the humouristic tale and the Rabelaisian outbreak which relieve and throw out into strong relief the splendour of Empire and the havoc of Time.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Her talents are not showy, but, take them altogether, they form a pleasant whole: she has good sense enough in the practical affairs of life, and enough of that ineffable womanly gift called tact to counteract the effects of whimsical natures like mine, and yet enough sense of the humouristic views of life not to take too literally all that a whimsical man like myself may say.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Her talents are not showy, but, take them altogether, they form a pleasant whole: she has good sense enough in the practical affairs of life, and enough of that ineffable womanly gift called tact to counteract the effects of whimsical natures like mine, and yet enough sense of the humouristic views of life not to take too literally all that a whimsical man like myself may say.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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