In his obit of Grice, Andreas Kemmerling recalls his (Grice's) sonorous laughter. Ditto Schiffer, in his adaptation of the dry martinin definite description illustration:

The man with the heavy laughter is Paul Grice.

Reminds one of an opera by Draghi: La risa di Democrito.


Democritean, f. L. Democritus (or Democreitus, Gr. Democriteios) of or
pertaining to Democritus]. Democrcriticus a. [L. Democriticus],
Democritical fabulæ Democriticæ) Democritus.

The first quote given by the OED is by our very own

1617 BAYNE Diocesans Tryall (1621) 80
As all but Morelius and such Democritall spirits doe affirme.

1650 BULWER Anthropomet. Ep. Ded., To summon Democritical Atomes to
conglobate into an intellectual Form.

1656 BLOUNT Glossogr., Democritick, mocking, jeering, laughing at every
thing.

1668 H. MORE Div. Dial I. xxvi. (1713) 53
The Existence of the ancient Democritish Vacuum.

1672 SIR T. BROWNE Lett. Friend xxiv. (1881) 143
His sober contempt of the world wrought no Democritism or Cynicism, no
laughing or snarling at it.

1678 CUDWORTH Intell. Syst. Pref., The Democritick Fate, is nothing but The
Material Necessity of all things without a God.

1725 BAILEY Erasm. Colloq. (1877) 394 (D.) Not to mention democritical
stories, do we not find..that there is a mighty disagreement between an oak and an
olive-tree?

1845 MAURICE Mor. & Met. Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. II. 627/1
The Democritic concourse of atoms.

1855 MILMAN Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. XIV. iii. 137
The Democritean notions of actual images which..pass from the object to the
sense.

1888 J. MARTINEAU Study Relig. I. II. i. 214
A physiologist so Democritean as Haeckel.

Etc.