facete

American  

[fuh-seet] / fəˈsit /

adjective

Archaic.

1. facetious.

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Other Word Forms

• facetely adverb
• faceteness noun

Etymology

Origin of facete

First recorded in 1595–1605, facete is from the Latin word facētus clever, witty

Example Sentences

The information is in a facete but earnest vein, and we cheerfully miss in its tone the dull preachment, the cold calculation, and matter-of-fact obstinacy of a work professing to be statistical.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 557, July 14, 1832 by Various

Inde nostri intolerabili siti et immiti volentes significare se torqueri, facete aiunt “Rolandi morte se perire.”—John de la Bruiere Champier, De Cibaria, xvi.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Our second Charles, of fame facete, On loin of beef did dine; He held his sword, pleased, o’er the meat.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Multa sunt multorum facete dicta: ut ea, quæ a sene Catone collecta sunt, quæ vocant apophthegmata.45.Sat.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

When not under depression he was an amusing companion, "very merry, facete, and juvenile," and a person of "great honesty, plain dealing, and charity."

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)