cachinnate
[kak-uh-neyt]
Origin of cachinnate
1815–25; < Latin cachinnātus (past participle of cachinnāre to laugh aloud, laugh immoderately), equivalent to cachinn- laugh aloud + -ātus -ate1
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Chip's nervous system did not demand the relief of cachinnation.
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
And there it swung to and fro, moved by the violence of its cachinnation.
Vikram and the VampireRichard F. Burton
Then, look at the baby, when it has turned into a little boy or girl, and come up in some degree to the cachinnation.
Why, one might as well talk of a laughing death's-head,—the cachinnation of a monk's memento mori.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
Never did a General and his Chief-of-Staff, in a more unseemly state of cachinnation, ride along a picket-line.
The Black PhalanxJoseph T. Wilson
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Word Origin for cachinnate
C19: from Latin cacchināre, probably of imitative origin
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