a. [f. prec.: see -ORY.] Of, pertaining to, or connected with loud or immoderate laughter.

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1828.  Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 188. Shall our cachinnatory muscles remain rigid?

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1846.  Hawthorne, Mosses, II. iii. (1864), 61. Which threatened instant death on the slightest cachinnatory indulgence.

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