Thus, repress the instantaneous motions of merriment may be seen as a roundabout and obscure way of saying stop laughing.
Similarly, he distinguishes between the feelings of the comic and the tragic, and the emotions of merriment and terror or pity, considered as responses to those feelings.
In the sixteenth century the reader/singer was led through the miscellanies in a morally ascending line based on the classic rhetoricians' division of amorousness, merriment and wisdom.
We all share his merriment in contemplating that matter.
But before we start rolling on the floor in merriment again, let us ask ourselves what is so funny.
I am deeply sorry that my raising a point of order has caused such merriment, but this is a very serious matter.
When interpreted, the question seemed to be received with universal merriment.
I think that is a subject which ought not to be treated as a matter for merriment.
