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      "\u02c8hjum\u0259r\u0259s"
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      "From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin h\u016bmor\u014dsus), equivalent to humor + -ous."
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            "mean": "Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.\nThe waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him."
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            "mean": "Showing humor; witty, jocular."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) Damp or watery."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.\nc. 1598\u20131600 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cAs You Like It\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, , lines 380-83:uch is now the Duke's conditionThat he misconstrues all that you have done.The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed,More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.\n1603,  Michel de Montaigne,  \u201cOf the affection of fathers to their children\u201d, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes\u00a0, book II, London:    Val Simmes for Edward Blount\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 212:It is a melancholy humor  that fir\u017ft put this humorous conceipt  of writing into my head.\n1861,  Elizabeth Gaskell,  The Grey Woman:I felt at this time as if I could have been fond of him too, if he would have let me; but I was timid from my childhood, and before long my dread of his displeasure    conquered my humorous inclination to love one who was so handsome, so accomplished, so indulgent and devoted."
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