delight (del it)

[A wrong spelling (see the verb); earlier delite, Webbe, Travels (ed. Arber), p. 31. The ancients and our own Elizabeth ans, ere spiritual megrims had become fashionable, perhaps made more out of life by taking a frank delight in its action and pa ion. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 249. 2. That which gives great pleasure; that which affords a high degree of satisfaction or enjoy IMG:content-2294.png:[blocks in formation] 3t. Licentious pleasure; lust. Chaucer. Syn. 1. Joy, Pleasure, etc. (see gladne ), gratification, rapture, transport, ecstasy, delectation. delighted (de-li'ted), p. a. [Pp. of delight, v.] 1. Greatly pleased; joyous; joyful. About the keel delighted dolphins play. Waller, His Majesty's Escape. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. IMG:content-2295.png:[blocks in formation] Whom best I love I cro ; to make my gift, The more delay'd, delighted . Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 4. delightedly (dēlīted-li), adv . In a delighted manner; with delight. Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. Cole ridge, tr. of Schiller's Death of Wal lens tein. delighter (dē-liter), n. One who takes delight. [Rare.] Ill-humoured, or a delighter in telling bad stories. Barrow, Sermons, I. 250. delightful (de-lit fül), a. [ delight + -ful , 1.] Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction: as, a delightful thought; a delight ful prospect. The house is delightful -the very perfection of the old Elizabeth an style. Macaulay's Life and Letters, 1. 191. After all, to be delightful is to be cla ic, and the chaotic IMG:content-2296.png:[blocks in formation] 21. With delight; delightedly. O voice once heard Delightfully , Increase and multiply; Now death to hear! Milton , P. L., x. 730. delightfulne (dē-līt'fül-nes), n. 1. The quality of being delightful, or of affording great pleasure: as, the delightfulne of a prospect or of scenery; the delightfulne of leisure. Because it [deportment] is a nurse of peace and greatly contributes to the delightfulne of society, [it] hath been always much commended. Barrow, Sermons, I. xxix. 21. The state of being delighted; great pleasure; delight. But our desires' tyrannical extortion Doth force us there to set our chief delightfulne Where but a baiting place is all our portion. Sir P. Sidney. Affording no pleasure or delight; cheerle . Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale moon, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightle . Thomson, Spring. delightsome (de-līt's um), a . [ delight + -some .] D Delightful; imparting delight. Then deck thee with thy loose, delightsome robes, And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes. Peele, David and Beths a be. The Kingdom of Tonquin is general healthy especially in the dry season, when also it is very delight som. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 31. delightsomely (dē-līt's um-li), adv . In a delightful manner; in a way to give or receive delight. I have not lived my life delightsomely. Tennyson, Balin and Balan. The delightsome ne (de-lit sum-nes), n. quality of giving delight; charm fulne . The delightsome ne of our dwellings shall not be envied, Wheatly, Schools of the Prophets, Sermon at Oxford, p. 38. delignatet (de-lig'nāt), v. t. [L. de -priv. + lignum, wood, + -ate2 (suggested by del api date, dilapidate).] To deprive or strip of wood. Davies. [Rare.] IMG:content-2297.png:[blocks in formation] It moves me much, his accusation of covetousne dilapidating, or rather delignating , his bishop rick, cutting down the wood thereof, for which he fell into the Queen's delimit (de-lim'it), v. t . [ délimiter , delimit are , mark out the limits, limit are , limit, bound: see limit.] To mark or fix the limits or boundaries of; bound. The sporangium is a large club-shaped cell delimited by a transverse wall from the unicellular tubular sporangiophore. De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 74. The present system of delimiting the towns and preserving the memory of their bounds is an inheritance from IMG:content-2298.png:[blocks in formation]