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(RYD-uhnt)

adjective: Laughing; cheerful.

[From Latin ridere (to laugh) which is also the source of ridiculous, deride, and risible.]

"Mamma was gracious and happy. Hetty was radiant and rident."
William Makepeace Thackeray; The Virginians; 1859.

A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)

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