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tion, and devoted himfelf to theology. In 1714. he ob¬ 
tained the degree of mafter of arts, and began to read 
ledtures. In 1717 he became affeffor of the theological 
faculty, and in 1718 bachelor. Befides hiftory, he applied 
with great diligence to philofophy and rhetoric. At 
firft he read ledlures on Rudiger’s philofophy; but having 
perufed'with much attention the writings of Leibnitz 
and Wolf, he conceived fuch a tafte for them, that he 
ever after remained attached to their method. He there¬ 
fore read lectures on Thummig’s Inftitutions of the 
Wolfian Philofophy; and, as he was the firft perfon who 
had taught Wolf’s fyltem at Leipfic, he foon attracted a 
numerous concourfe of pupils, which encouraged him to 
exert himfelf with greater zeal. His father having died 
in poor circumftances in 1720, he found himfelf reduced 
to the neceffity of writing and ledluring with more dili¬ 
gence. Rabener, who was editor of the German A&a 
Eruditorum, finding the labour too heavy for him, admitted 
Jocher as his colleague in 1718 ; and in 1720, on engaging 
in another occupation, resigned to him the whole ma¬ 
nagement of that work, which he conducted with great 
approbation till the year 1739. In 1730 he was appointed 
profelfor of philofophy; in 1732 he fucceeded Mencken 
as profelfor of hiftory; and in 174.2 he obtained the office 
©f librarian to the univerfity. Though he had exhaurted 
his ftrength by inceflant labour in the bloom of life, and 
for many years had been fubjedl to fevere arthritic pains, 
he attained to the age of fixty-four, and died in the month 
of May, 1758. 
Jocher was much efteemed, as a man of letters and a 
good teacher. He poffeffed an extenfive knowledge in 
the various branches of literature, and was well acquaint¬ 
ed with the works of the modern writers, both Germans 
and foreigners. His converfation was lively and agree¬ 
able ; he exerted himfelf with great diligence in his pro- 
feffion, and wrote feveral ufeful works, which required 
great labour and attention. The heft of his philofophical 
writings is his Examen Paralogifmorum Wooljloni ; Leipf. 
3734., 4-to. but that which entitles him to the greateft 
merit, and which has rendered him raoft celebrated, is his 
dictionary of learned men : it appeared at firft in 8vo. 
under the title of “ A Compendious Dictionary of Learned 
Men, arranged alphabetically, according to the Plan of 
I. B. Mencken.” After the publication of the third edi¬ 
tion, in 1733, Jocher began to make preparations for 
another improyed one, in which he endeavoured to cor¬ 
rect the faults of the former editions; gave a more com¬ 
plete catalogue of the works of the different authors; and 
added, as far as could be collected, the names which 
were wanting, together with an account of their lives 
and writings. When thus revifed and enlarged, it was 
publiftied under the title of A General Dictionary of 
Learned Men, See. Leipfic, 1750, 1751, 4. vols. 4-to. One 
of the greatelt faults in this work is, that the titles of the 
books are, in many cafes, mutilated, and often given 
without dates. Two fupplementary volumes, which go 
as far as the letter I, have been publiftied by Mr. Ade- 
lung, entitled, A Continuation of, and Supplement to, 
Jocher’s General Dictionary of Learned Men; Leipfic, 
1784,1787,410. 
JOCK/EY, a man’s name. 
JOCK'EY,/. [From Jack , the diminutiveof John , comes 
Jackty , or, as the Scotch, jockey, ufed for any boy, and 
particularly for a boy that rides race-horfes.]^ A fellow 
that rides horfes in the race.—Thefe were the wife an¬ 
cients, who heaped up greater honours on Pindar’s jockeys 
than on the poet himfelf. Addifon. —A man that deals in 
horfes. A cheat; a trickifh fellow. 
To JOCK'EY, v. a. To juftle by riding againft one. 
To cheat; to trick. 
JOCK'EYING,/. Cheating; tricking. 
JOCK'EYSHIP,/ The employment of a jockey; dex¬ 
terity in riding. Cheating; tricking. 
JOCK'GRIM, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine, on an eminence near the Rhine; nine 
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miles fouth-eafl of Landau, and feven north-north-eaft of 
Lauterburg. 
JOCKMOCK'I, a town of Sweden, in the lapmark of 
Lulea: ninety miles north-north-weft of Lulea. 
JOCK'O. See Simia fatyrus. 
JOCO'SE, adj. [ jocofus , Lat.] Merry ; waggifh ; given 
to jell.—If the fubjeCt be facred, all ludicrous turns, and 
jocofe or comical airs, fhould be excluded, left young minds 
learn to trifle with the awful folemnities of religion. Watts. 
JOCO'SELY, adv. Waggiffily; ih jeft; in game.-— 
Spondanus imagines that Ulyffes may poffibly fpeak jo- 
cofely, but in truth Ulyffes never behaves with levity. 
Broome. 
JOCO'SENESS, or Jocos'ity, f. Waggery; merri¬ 
ment.—A laugh there is Of contempt or indignation, as 
well as of mirth and jocojity. Brown. 
JOCKS'BERG, a town of Germany, in the principality 
of Anfpacb : three miles north-weft of Leuchterlhaufen. 
JOC'RONS, a town of Hindooltan, in Myfore: twenty 
miles north-north-eaft of Chitteldroog. 
JOC'ULAR, adj. \_jocularis, Lat.] Ufed in jeft; merry; 
jocofe; waggifli; not ferious: ufed both of men and 
things.—The fatire is a dramatic poem; the ftyle is partly 
ferious, and partly jocular. Dry den. 
JOCULA'RITY, f. Merriment; difpofition to jeft.— 
The wits of thofe ages were Ihort of thefe of ours ; when 
men could maintain immutable faces, and perfift unal¬ 
terably at the efforts of jocularity. Brown. 
JOC'ULARNESS,/. Jocularity. 
JOC'ULARY, adj. Jocular; jocofe. Cole. 
JOC'ULATORY, adj. Jocular; jocofe. Cole. 
JOC'ULATOR,/. A bard; a poet retained in the 
fervice of fome great perfonage. 
JOCUND, adj. Ijocundus, Lat. J Merry ;• gay ; airy 3 
lively: 
No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day. 
But the great cannon to the clouds (hall tell. Shakefpeare. 
JOC'UNDLY, adv. Merrily; gaily.—He has no power ' 
of himfelf to leave it; but he is ruined jocundly and plea- 
fantly, and damned according to his heart’s delire. South. 
JOD, /. [', Heb.] The tenth letter of the Hebrew 
alphabet. 
JODEL'LE (Stephen), an early French poet, bom in 
1532, was a native of Paris, and of a family in the rank 
of nobleffe, as may be inferred from his title of Sieur de 
Lymodin. He was a man of various talents, being well 
(killed in the ancient languages, and converfant in the 
arts of painting, fculpture, and architecture, as well as - 
dexterous in the ufe of arms. His great talent, however, 
was poetry, if a wonderful facility in compoling verfes 
deferves that name. Among other feats, it is faid that 
in his youth he wrote for a wager five hundred Latm 
verfes, upon a fubjedl given on the fpot, in a Angle night. 
It is added that they were good ones 5 but the value of 
verfes compofed Jlans pede in uno was well enough under- 
ftood, even when Latin was a living language. Ih his 
own tongue he was not lefs fertile, and his longed dra¬ 
matic pieces are faid never to have coft him more than 
ten mornings. In confluence, very few would now 
have the patience to read his compolitions: he, however, 
deferves the praife of being the firft who introduced tra¬ 
gedy and comedy in the ancient form into French poetry. 
His Cleopatra is the earliell of French tragedies. It was 
ailed before Henry II. to a great concourfe of perlons of 
rank, and the parts were all filled by men of diftindtion. 
It is extremely Ample in its plan, with little adlion, and 
much declamation, and provided with a perpetual chorus 
in the antique mode. His comedies are faid to be in a 
better manner. Jodelle,’ though a favourite even with, 
royalty, as well as with the principal courtiers, was dif¬ 
fered to fall into indigence, to which, indeed, his care- 
leffnefs and love of pleafure contributed. He died in 
1573, at theearly age of forty-one; and upon his death-bed 
dictated a fonnet to Charles IX. containing reproaches for 
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