delisseæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. deli ea, and fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot.: A tribe of Lobeliads, type Deli ea (q. v.). *de-lit-a-ble, a. [DELIGHT ABLE.] Delightful, delectable. "And many anothir deli table sight." Chaucer: C. Т. , 7,938. de-li-těs'-çence, de-li-těs-çen-çỹ, s. [Latin delitescens, pr. par. of delitesco to lie hid: de = away, from, and latesco , incept. of lateo =to lie hid.] *I. Ordinary Language : 1. The state of being in retirement, concealment, or obscurity. "I have enjoyed a happy delitescency." - Aubrey: Life , p. 18. 2. A state of inactivity or apathy, idlene . "Every man has those about him who wish to soothe him into inactivity and delitescence." -Johnson. II. Surg.: A mode of termination peculiar to phlegm as iæ, in which there is a sudden and total disappearance of inflammation. Period of delitescence : Med.: [INCUBATION.] IMG:content-2088.png:[blocks in formation] *13. To exert, to put in motion. "Musidorus could not perform any action on horse or foot more strongly, or deliver that strength more nimbly." -Sidney. 14. To disburden of a child; to bring to bed. "His Queen was safely delivered of a daughter."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xviii. II. Law : To hand over a deed to the grantee, as in the attestation, "sealed and delivered." [DE- LIVERY, II. 1.] *B. In trans.: To speak, to declare. "An't please you, deliver ." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , i. 1. IMG:content-2089.png:[blocks in formation] "Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies." -Ps. xxvii. 12. (b) To hand down, to transmit. "Your lordship will be delivered over to posterity in a fairer character than I have given."-Dryden. (3) To deliver out : To distribute. "See what I do deliver out to each." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, i. 1. (1) Crabb thus discriminates between to deliver , to rescue, and to save : "The idea of taking or keeping from danger is common to these terms; but deliver and rescue signify rather the taking from, save the keeping from danger: we deliver and rescue from the evil that is; we save from evils that may be as well as those that are. Deliver and rescue do not convey any idea of the means by which the end is produced; save commonly includes the idea of some superior agency: a man may be delivered or rescued by any person without distinction; he is commonly saved by a superior. Deliver is an unqualified term, it is applicable to every mode of the action or species of evil; to rescue is a species of delivering namely, delivering from the power of another; to save is applicable to the greatest po ible evils: a person may be delivered from a burden, from an oppre ion, from disease, or danger, by any means; a prisoner is rescued from the hands of an enemy; a person is saved from destruction." (Crabb: Eng . Synon .)