deliciousness

[Eng. delicious; -ne . ] 1. The quality of being delicious or highly pleasing to any of the senses. IMG:content-2082.png:[blocks in formation] have fed me with fode of most delycyte.' Digby Mysteries (ed. Furnivall, 1882), p. 132, 1. 2039. de-lict', s. [Lat. delictum a fault of omi ion; delinquo to omit doing what one ought to do: de = away, from, and linquo =to leave.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A failure to do some act; an offense, a crime. "According to the quality of the delict ."-Howel: Letters, p. 114. 2. Scots Law : A misdemeanor. "Crime is generally divided into crimes properly so called, and delicts . Delicts are commonly understood of slighter offenses, which do not affect the public peace so immediately."-Erskine : Inst ., bk. iv., t. 4, § 1. A challenge propter delictum in English law is for some crime or misdemeanor that affects the juror's credit, and renders him infamous. This was formerly the case after a conviction of treason, felony, perjury, or conspiracy, . But the grounds of a challenge propter delictum are now simply having been convicted of treason, felony, or any inf a mous offense, which stain, however, a free pardon will obliterate, or being outlawed, or excommunicated, the latter being a species of outlawry in use in the ecclesiastical courts. IMG:content-2083.png:[blocks in formation] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, "She was his care, his hope, and his delight; Most in his thought, and ever in his sight." Dryden: Sigismonud and Guiscaruo , 11, 12. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; ". the livery she delights to wear." Cowper . Task , iv. 760. *de-light-a-ble ( gh silent), *de-lit-a-ble, *delyt-a-ble, a. [O. Fr. deli table , dele i table ; Sp. deleytable; Port, dele it avel ; Ital. dilettabile , from Lat. delectabilis =delectable (q. v.).] Delightful, delectable, charming. "Wel may that lond be called delytable ." Maundeville, p. 3. *de-light-a-bly ( gh silent), *de-lit-a-bly, adv . [Eng. delightab (le); -ly .] In a delightful or delectable manner; delightfully. "Whanne Philosophie hadde songen softly and del it ably ." Chaucer: Boethius , p. 108. v.] de-light-ed ( zh silent), pa.par.ora. [DELIGHT, A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Full of delight; charmed, overjoyed. *2. Attended with delight; delightful, delighting. "If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black." Shakesp. Othello , i. 3. In the following pa age the meaning of the word is very obscure; by some it is taken as- de lightful, the sense being: the spirit, having the power of giving delight, .; by others it is understood as meaning lightened or freed of incumbrance, etherealized. "Ay, but to die, and go we know not where: and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iii. 1. †dě-light-ed-lý ( gh silent), adv . [Eng. delighted; -ly.] In a delighted manner; with delight. dě-lighter ( gh silent), s. [Eng. delight ; -er.] 1. One who delights or affords delight. 2. One who takes delight. "We should, concerning the author of the report, consider whether he be not ill-humored, or a delighter in telling bad stories."- Barrow : Serm., i. 250. dě-light-fül (ghsilent), a . [ Eng.delight ; -ful ( 1 ).] 1. Affording delight; charming; causing or attended with great pleasure or satisfaction; exquisite, lovely. "Come, peace of mind, delightful guest!" Cowper: Que to Peace, *2. Full of delight, cheerful, joyous. "Too chilling a doctrine for our delightful dispositions." C. Sutton: Learn to Die (1634), p. 16. Crabb thus discriminates between delightful and charming : "When they both denote the pleas ure of the sense, delightful is not so strong an expre ion as charming ; a prospect may bo delightful or charming; but the latter rises to a degree that carries the senses away captive. Of music we should rather say that it was charming than delightful , as it acts on the senses in so powerful a manner: on the other hand, we should with more propriety speak of a delightful employment to relieve distre , or a delightful spectacle to see a family living together in love and harmony." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.) de-light-fül-lỹ ( gh silent), adv . [Eng. delight ful ; -ly.] 1. In a delightful manner; so as to cause delight; charmingly. IMG:content-2084.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-2086.png:[blocks in formation] "And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sheets Deform the day delightle ." Thomson: Spring , 19-21. *de-light-ous ( gh silent), a. [Eng. delight; -ous.] Delightful.