adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a jocose manner; playfully; in joke.
1725. Broome, Notes on Pope’s Odyss., XI. III. 103 (J.). Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely…. But in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity.
1728. Curl, in Pope’s Dunc., II. 3, note. What the Gentlemen of the long robe are pleased jocosely to call mounting the Rostrum for one hour.
1807–8. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 279. We have more than once, in the course of our work, been most jocosely familiar with great personages.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. xix. 54. He protested against having serious things treated jocosely.
