Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To please or charm, as the senses; render delectable; delight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To delight; to charm.
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- verb To
delight ; tocharm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Had either, madam, of that cynosural triad been within call of my most humble importunities, your ears had been delectate with far nobler melody.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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Jungfern Stieg, will delectate ourselves with beefsteaks and fried potatoes, our glass of Baierisches Bier, and perhaps a tiny schnapschen to settle our repast.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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"Had either, madam, of that cynosural triad been within call of my most humble importunities, your ears had been delectate with far nobler melody."
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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Sen. John McCain, the eventual nominee, engaged in something of a delectate dance around the issue for fear of (a) alienating the Tancredo-types with his relatively moderate position and / or (b) losing the support of Hispanic voters by catering to them.
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“Do some decent degree of good and kindness in thy daily life, for the result is a slight pleasurable sense that will seem to warm and delectate thee with felicitous self-laudings; and all that brings thy thoughts to thyself tends to invigorate that central principle by the growth of which thou art to give thyself indefinite life.
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"Do some decent degree of good and kindness in thy daily life, for the result is a slight pleasurable sense that will seem to warm and delectate thee with felicitous self-laudings; and all that brings thy thoughts to thyself tends to invigorate that central principle by the growth of which thou art to give thyself indefinite life.
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
qms commented on the word delectate
As all of God’s creatures must defecate
Let no one the humble bug deprecate.
Let praises be sung
Of beetles (type dung)
Whose appetites droppings delectate.
February 16, 2018