joculator Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈdʒɒkjʊleɪtə(r))
[a. L. joculātor jester, joker, agent-n. from joculārī to jest, joke, f. joculus: see jongleur, juggler.]
A professional jester, minstrel, or jongleur.
| a 1500 Bernard. de cura rei fam. (E.E.T.S.) 223 A mane to lach at ioculatouris fantasy. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 87 Lawes..enacted against..prophesiers, predictors, circulatours, joculators, or jugglers! 1782 Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) II. iv. 355 The bounty of our first Norman sovereign to his Joculator or Bard. 1858 Doran Crt. Fools 117 No monarch more needed a joculator than..Bolingbroke. |