Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
“To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary.”
— Shaftesbury.
“All . . .
jocose or comical airs should be excluded.”
— I. Watts.
“Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity.”
— Broome.
“He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life.”
— Buckle.