a. and adv. Obs. Also -ique. [a. Du. lustig; cf. F. (from Du. or Ger.) loustic, regimental buffoon.] a. adj. Merry, jolly; chiefly with reference to drinking. b. adv. Merrily, jovially.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, II. iii. 47. Par. … Heere comes the King. Ol. Laf. Lustique [Globe ed. lustig], as the Dutchman saies.
1607. Dekker, Sir T. Wyatt, Wks. 1873, III. 103. If my olde Maister be hanged, why so; If not, why rusticke and lusticke.
1618. D. Belchier, Hans Beer-pot, G 2 b. So now I am well, can walke a mile or two, As lustique as a Boore.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks. (1672), 163. Your Wine-mirth is but the smothering sometimes … of a deeper grief; like the lustick fit in some Countries of such as are going to execution.
1641. Brome, Joviall Crew, I. Wks. 1873, III. 366. As lustick and frolique as Lords in their Bowers.
1691. J. Wilson, Belphegor, II. iv. To eat well, drink lustick, care for nothing, and have my Flatterers as other Men.
