jovialist

English

Etymology

jovial +‎ -ist

Noun

jovialist (plural jovialists)

1. (archaic) One who lives a jovial life.
   • 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:

     What talk we to these jovialists? It is liberty , with them , for a man to speak what he thinks , to take what he likes , to do what he lists ; without restriction , without controulment

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jovialist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)