jovial

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	1.	Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. Our jovial star reigned at his birth. - Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. - Sir T. Browne.
	2.	Sunny; serene.
	3.	Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem. Be bright and jovial among your guests. - Shak. His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian. - Dryden.

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jovial - full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" Synonyms: jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, gay

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JOVIAL - (Jule's Own Version of IAL) A version of IAL produced by Jules I. Schwartz in 1959-1960. JOVIAL was based on ALGOL 58, with extensions for large scale real-time programming. It saw extensive use by the US Air Force. The data elements were items, entries (records) and tables. Versions include JOVIAL I (IBM 709, 1960), JOVIAL II (IBM 7090, 1961) and JOVIAL 3 (1965). Dialects: J3, JOVIAL J73, JS, JTS. Ada/Jovial Newsletter, Dale Lange +1 (513) 255-4472. [CACM 6(12):721, Dec 1960].

affable, amiable, bantering, blithe, blithesome, boon, buxom, chaffing, convivial, facetious, festal, festive, free and easy, frivolous, gala, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, hilarious, humorous, jocose, jocular, jocund, jollying, joshing, joyous, laughter-loving, lighthearted, merrymaking, mirth-loving, mirthful, on the loose, rejoicing, risible, sociable