Definition of "humored" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of humor. (verb)

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• "The lead must be "humored" into shape and not "driven" into shape."
• "That slaves have to be "humored" a great deal, and that they very frequently can not be made to do their master's will, I have seen much evidence."
• "Two ex-Union officers who owned a plantation in Alabama exclaimed that they had “never employed so docile, industrious, and good humored a set of people in all our experience.”"