A scene of festivity or merriment. Used only in familiar language.
Mr. Tolfrey's narrative of salmon and trout fishing, and otter shooting, with private theatricals, and endless jollifications, come before us in a startling contrast to the received ideas of collonial service.--Lond. Spectator.
I have been already twice to the top of Vesuvius: the first time we had a jollification near the crater--our dinner being entirely cooked in one of the fumaroli.--Letters from Naples. London Athenæum, Dec. 6, 1745.
It was determined to commemorate our safe deliverance by a special jollification.--Carlton, The New Purchase, Vol. I. p. 204.