cachinnate
verb (used without object)
to laugh loudly or excessively.
cachinnatory
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a word derived from
cachinnate.
Example Sentences
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But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
On which timely joke there follow cachinnatory buzzes of approval.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
At length, by the enormous exertions the last duty imposed upon me, I sunk into a hopeless state of cachinnatory impotence: my risible muscles refused to perform their office, and I lost mine.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 by Various
The laughing jackasses laughed their loudest, almost frightening her with their weird cachinnatory chorus; and the laughing hyæna screamed his sepulchral ha-ha-ha's so that he was heard all the way to Primrose Hill.
From Fan : the story of a young girl's life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
And after she had concluded her cachinnatory outburst, she coolly told me she would rather have 'MICHAEL.'
From Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
