delitt

A Middle English form of delight. délit (da-lē'), n. [F. délit, an offense: see de lict.] In law, an act whereby a person by fraud or malice causes damage or wrong to another. Quasi délit, an act by which a person causes damage to another without malice, but by some inexcusable imprudence. deli tablet, a. [ME., Many a tour and toun thou mayst biholde, That founded were in tyme of fadres olde, And many another deli table syghte. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 6. delitablyt, adv . [ME., deli table , q. v.] De- light fully. Chaucer. delitet, v. and n. The earlier spelling of delight . delitet, a . [ del it , delightful, adj. of del it , n., delight: see delite , n., delight .] Delightful; ble ed. This lam be moste delyte , That gave his body to man in forme of brede On shreffe thursday to-forne or before he was dede. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 15. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton . 2. In surg., the sudden disappearance of inflammatory symptoms or the subsidence of a tumor. - Period of delitescence, in med., the period during which certain morbid poisons, as smallpox, lie latent in the system. See incubation.