Obs. [f. prec. + -IST.]
1. A person born under the planet Jupiter.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 50 b. She pronounceth this man a Saturniste or Iouialist.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng. (1597), 319. Aeneas, for personage the Iouilist, for wel-spoken the Mercurilist.
1647. Lilly, Chr. Astrol., xv. 84. We must describe … a Jovialist, to be one of a comely stature [etc.].
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 151. So much for the Saturnines; now for the Jovialists.
2. A person of a jovial or convivial disposition.
1596. Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 31. What marvell then though some base humorists … Extenuate the work of Iovialists.
1650. A. B., Mutat. Polemo, 25. The great mirth of the Jovialists.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Satan’s Fiery Darts quenched, III. v. Let the jovialists of the world drink wine in bowles, and feast themselves without feare.
3. A satellite of Jupiter. rare.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., III. 163. What then must we think of the Secondary Planets, as the … four Jovialists…?
4. attrib. or as adj. = JOVIAL.
1610. J. Davies, Commend. Poems (1878), 5. There shall thy Iouialist Mechanicalls Attend this Table all in Scarlet Cappes.
