most jocose

My greatest prayer is--which I have had printed many years beforehand--that you be the most jocose man in my house; merriment makes all fields of knowledge for children fields of sugar-cane.

Trover had just tact enough for the occasion, and was most jocose wherever the point was a perilous one.

Dull it is, in the sense that the best fun of the most jocose family may be merely tantalizing to the outsider.

It is impossible that the most jocose of races, a nation that has given the world an original school of humor, should not carry this spirit over into its music.

Of all patois they declared that mine was the most preposterous and the most jocose in sound.