\Jo*cose"\, a. [L jocosus, fr. jocus joke. See {Joke}.]
Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding
in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.
      To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with
      an adversary.                            --Shaftesbury.
      All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded.
                                               --I. Watts.
Syn: Jocular; facetious; witty; merry; pleasant; waggish;
     sportive; funny; comical. -- {Jo*cose"ly}, adv. --
     {Jo*cose"ness}, n.
           Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak
           jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with
           levity.                             --Broome.
           He must beware lest his letter should contain
           anything like jocoseness; since jesting is
           incompatible with a holy and serious life.
                                               --Buckle.