Obs. exc. Hist. [a. L. joculātor jester, joker, agent-n. from joculārī to jest, joke, f. joculus: see JONGLEUR, JUGGLER.] A professional jester, minstrel or jongleur.
a. 1500. Bernard. de cura rei fam. (E.E.T.S.), 223. A mane to lach at ioculatouris fantasy.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 57. How many wholsome Lawes … have been enacted against … Prophesiers, Predictors, Circulatours, Joculators, or Iugglers?
1782. Burney, Hist. Mus. (1789), II. iv. 355. The bounty of our first Norman sovereign to his Joculator or Bard.
1858. Doran, Crt. Fools, 117. No monarch more needed a joculator than the once handsome Bolingbroke.
