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A jovial person is friendly and in a good mood, often in an open, warm, slightly loud way — the host who laughs easily and makes a room feel easy. It is cheer you can see, more social than quiet happiness, warmer than merely polite. Next to cheerful it sounds a little older and a little more like a book, but people still use it, especially about hosts, uncles, and red-faced men in stories. It does not mean funny, though a jovial person may tell jokes. Though actually the word first meant under Jupiter: old star-readers said that planet made people merry. Nobody means the planet now. They just mean warm and jolly.
組成Jove + -ial (relating to). Borrowed through French and Italian; originally born under Jupiter.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Jovialadj/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
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obsoleteastronomynatural-sciencesPertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
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obsoletehuman-sciencesmysticismmythologyPertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus), the god of the sky and thunder and the king of the gods; Jovian.
- I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?
- It was pointed out in chapter 3 that [C. S.] Lewis liked to regard Jupiter as his personal presiding deity, but Mercury would have been almost as apt a choice, for Lewis had been extraordinarily favoured by that Intelligence whom, in ‘The Planets,’ he calls the ‘Lord of language’: both as a speaker and as a writer Lewis was uncommonly fluent. However, despite these talents, despite the fact that he saw Mercurial as well as Jovial strains in his paternity, and despite his opinion that Mercury shared with Jupiter a special need of rehabilitation, Lewis claimed no special relationship with the planet of the second sphere. In fact, he confesses that the Mercurial essence is almost beyond his grasp: […]
Jovialnoun/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
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literaturemediapublishingAn inhabitant of the planet Jupiter; a Jovian.
jovialadj/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/
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Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.
- A melancholy boddy is not the kindeſt nurſe for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is ſoverainly beholding to nature,) […]
- The moſt ſecure, happy, Ioviall & merry in the worlds eſteeme, are Princes & great men, free from melancholy, but for their cares, miſeries, ſuſpicions, Iealoſies, diſcontents, folly, & madneſſe, I referre you to Xenophons Tyrannus, where king Hieron diſcourſeth at large with Simonides the Poet, of this ſubject.
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obsoleteastrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismPertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
- This Planet [Jupiter] being a Fortune, and Friend unto nature, inclineth the native, upon this direction, not only unto healthfulneſs, but alſo to be jovial and merry, affable and pleaſant, and to delight in the company of religious men: […] [T]his direction importeth good from jovial perſons, and is an excellent time to have dealings with, or to receive any courteſie from, or benefit by them, […]
- As ☉ is near to a ⚹ of ♃, so did a jovial man endeavour to procure the purchase (after I began), but ♃ is cadent and in detriment, which shewed he should not prevail.
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