Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not risible; incapable of laughter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Not risible.
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- adjective Not
risible .
Etymologies
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ir- + risible. See irrision.
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Examples
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Lucilius observes that Marcus Crassus was seen one single time to laugh, and yet, says the same author, he restrained his badge of ayl\wrog or irrisible to his dying day.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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