Joysome
(Joy"some) a. Causing joyfulness. [R.]
This all joysome grove.
T. Browne. Jub
(Jub) n. [Perh. corrupted fr. jug.] A vessel for holding ale or wine; a jug. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Juba
(||Ju"ba) n.; pl. Jubæ [L., a mane.]
1. (Zoöl.) The mane of an animal.
2. (Bot.) A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.
Jubate
(Ju"bate) a. [L. jubatus having a mane.] (Zoöl.) Fringed with long, pendent hair.
Jubé
(||Ju`bé") n. [F.] (Arch.) (a) A chancel screen or rood screen. (b) The gallery above such a screen,
from which certain parts of the service were formerly read. See Rood loft, under Rood.
Jubilant
(Ju"bi*lant) a. [L. jubilans, -antis, p. pr. of jubilare to shout for joy: cf. F. jubilant. See Jubilate.]
Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. "The jubilant age." Coleridge.
While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.
Milton. Jubilantly
(Ju"bi*lant*ly), adv. In a jubilant manner.
Jubilar
(Ju"bi*lar) a. [Cf. F. jubilaire.] Pertaining to, or having the character of, a jubilee. [R.] Bp.
Hall.
Jubilate
(Ju`bi*la"te) n. [L., imperat. of jubilare to shout for joy.]
1. The third Sunday after Easter; — so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin
version, begins with the words, "Jubilate Deo."
2. A name of the 100th Psalm; — so called from its opening word in the Latin version.
Jubilate
(Ju"bi*late) v. i. [L. jubilatus, p. p. of jubilare.] To exult; to rejoice. [R.] De Quincey.
Jubilation
(Ju`bi*la"tion) n. [L. jubilatio: cf. F. jubilation.] A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.
"Jubilations and hallelujahs." South.
Jubilee
(Ju"bi*lee) n. [F. jubilé, L. jubilaeus, Gr. fr. Heb. ybel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand
sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.]
1. (Jewish Hist.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath
of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been
alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some
English Bibles, jubile.] Lev. xxv. 8-17.
2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's
reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.
3. (R. C. Ch.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of
one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence granted by the
sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession
of sins and receiving of the eucharist.
