English Dictionary: joyfully | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Javel \Jav"el\, n. A vagabond. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jeofail \Jeof"ail\, n. [F. j'ai failli I have failed.] (Law) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. --Blackstone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jovial \Jo"vi*al\, a. [F., fr. L. Jovialis pertaining to Jove. The planet Jupiter was thought to make those born under it joyful or jovial. See {Jove}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. [Obs.] Our jovial star reigned at his birth. --Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Sunny; serene. [Obs.] [bd]The heavens always joviall.[b8] --Spenser. 3. Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem. Be bright and jovial among your guests. --Shak. His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian. --Dryden. Note: This word is a relic of the belief in planetary influence. Other examples are saturnine, mercurial, martial, lunatic, etc. Syn: Merry; joyous; gay; festive; mirthful; gleeful; jolly; hilarious. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jovially \Jo"vi*al*ly\, adv. In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly. --B. Jonson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Joyful \Joy"ful\, a. Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. [bd]Joyful tidings.[b8] --Shak. My soul shall be joyful in my God. --Is. lxi. 10. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. --Pope. -- {Joy"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Joyful \Joy"ful\, a. Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. [bd]Joyful tidings.[b8] --Shak. My soul shall be joyful in my God. --Is. lxi. 10. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. --Pope. -- {Joy"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jubilee \Ju"bi*lee\, n. [F. jubil[82], L. jubilaeus, Gr. [?], fr. Heb. y[?]bel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.] 1. (Jewish Hist.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, {jubile}.] --Lev. xxv. 8-17. 2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist. 4. A season of general joy. The town was all a jubilee of feasts. --Dryden. 5. A state of joy or exultation. [R.] [bd]In the jubilee of his spirits.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jubilee \Ju"bi*lee\, n. [F. jubil[82], L. jubilaeus, Gr. [?], fr. Heb. y[?]bel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.] 1. (Jewish Hist.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, {jubile}.] --Lev. xxv. 8-17. 2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist. 4. A season of general joy. The town was all a jubilee of feasts. --Dryden. 5. A state of joy or exultation. [R.] [bd]In the jubilee of his spirits.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diamond anniversary \Diamond anniversary\, jubilee \jubilee\, etc. One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jubilee \Ju"bi*lee\, n. [F. jubil[82], L. jubilaeus, Gr. [?], fr. Heb. y[?]bel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.] 1. (Jewish Hist.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, {jubile}.] --Lev. xxv. 8-17. 2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist. 4. A season of general joy. The town was all a jubilee of feasts. --Dryden. 5. A state of joy or exultation. [R.] [bd]In the jubilee of his spirits.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diamond anniversary \Diamond anniversary\, jubilee \jubilee\, etc. One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
JOVIAL produced by Jules I. Schwartz in 1959-1960. JOVIAL was based on {ALGOL 58}, with extensions for large scale {real-time} programming. It saw extensive use by the US Air Force. The data elements were items, entries ({record}s) and tables. Versions include JOVIAL I ({IBM 709}, 1960), JOVIAL II ({IBM 7090}, 1961) and JOVIAL 3 (1965). Dialects: {J3}, {JOVIAL J73}, {JS}, {JTS}. Ada/Jovial Newsletter, Dale Lange +1 (513) 255-4472. [CACM 6(12):721, Dec 1960]. (1996-07-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
JPL JAM Programming Language. Imperative string-based language, part of the JAM tool for developing screen (non-window) applications. JYACC Corporation | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Jabal a stream, a descendant of Cain, and brother of Jubal; "the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle" (Gen. 4:20). This description indicates that he led a wandering life. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Jubal jubilee, music, Lamech's second son by Adah, of the line of Cain. He was the inventor of "the harp" (Heb. kinnor, properly "lyre") and "the organ" (Heb. 'ugab, properly "mouth-organ" or Pan's pipe), Gen. 4:21. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Jubilee a joyful shout or clangour of trumpets, the name of the great semi-centennial festival of the Hebrews. It lasted for a year. During this year the land was to be fallow, and the Israelites were only permitted to gather the spontaneous produce of the fields (Lev. 25:11, 12). All landed property during that year reverted to its original owner (13-34; 27:16-24), and all who were slaves were set free (25:39-54), and all debts were remitted. The return of the jubilee year was proclaimed by a blast of trumpets which sounded throughout the land. There is no record in Scripture of the actual observance of this festival, but there are numerous allusions (Isa. 5:7, 8, 9, 10; 61:1, 2; Ezek. 7:12, 13; Neh. 5:1-19; 2 Chr. 36:21) which place it beyond a doubt that it was observed. The advantages of this institution were manifold. "1. It would prevent the accumulation of land on the part of a few to the detriment of the community at large. 2. It would render it impossible for any one to be born to absolute poverty, since every one had his hereditary land. 3. It would preclude those inequalities which are produced by extremes of riches and poverty, and which make one man domineer over another. 4. It would utterly do away with slavery. 5. It would afford a fresh opportunity to those who were reduced by adverse circumstances to begin again their career of industry in the patrimony which they had temporarily forfeited. 6. It would periodically rectify the disorders which crept into the state in the course of time, preclude the division of the people into nobles and plebeians, and preserve the theocracy inviolate." | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Jabal, which glides away | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Jubal, he that runs; a trumpet |