- A joke is a
display of
humour in
which words are used
within a
specific and well-defined
narrative structure to make
people laugh and is
usually not meant...
- The
phrase Jesting Pilate can be: a
phrase coined by
Francis Bacon in the
opening sentence of his
essay Of
Truth a name for the
Biblical verse to which...
-
earliest known usage.
Aldous Huxley's book
Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, "What is Truth? said
jesting Pilate; and
would not stay for an answer", from...
- mock
implausible word
origins such as
those proposed by Priscian. It is a
jesting suggestion that
since the word
lucus (dark grove) has a
similar appearance...
- The All-Joking, All-Drunken
Synod of
Fools and
Jesters (1692–1725) was a club
founded by
Peter I of Russia. The
group included many of Peter's closest...
- The
mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe's
jesting was the
reason for the
practice of
ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria, a
festival celebrated in...
- John in the New
Testament of
Christian Bible. It is
often referred to as "
jesting Pilate". In it,
Pontius Pilate questions Jesus'
claim that he is "witness...
- A
political cartoon from 1787
jesting about the
notion of
taxation affecting prostitutes...
- award, stating: "What
McGowan failed to take into
consideration was the
jesting manner in
which Jenner spoke." Tam said: [Jenner] also
immediately followed...
- a
derivation from barathrum,
because they, so to speak,
carried their jesting to market, even into the very
depth (barathrum) of the
shambles (barathrum...
