Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of delight.
  • noun In law, an act whereby a person by fraud or malice causes damage or wrong to another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Delight.

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  • noun Obsolete form of delight.

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Examples

  • You will observe also that the importance of laying the stone in the building as it lay in its bed was from the first recognised by all good northern architects, to such extent that to lay stones 'en delit,' or in a position out of their bedding, is a recognized architectural term in France, where all structural building takes its rise; and in that form of 'delit' the word gets most curiously involved with the

    Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

  • The King's face flushed involuntarily, as if he had been surprised en flagrant delit.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • [1165] 'Petit siege de bois sur lequel on faisait asseoir, pour les interroger, ceux qui etaient accuses d'un delit pouvant faire encourir une peine afflictive.'

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • If a man bring a charge against one's wife, but she is not surprised with another man [_delit flagrant_ is necessary for divorce], she must take an oath and then may return to her house.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • The King's face flushed involuntarily, as if he had been surprised en flagrant delit.

    Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830

  • Lorem dunt luptat ipit la conse consequis aut lor sim nit praesendit alis aut augait adit lut iuscidui tet dolendreet, veros delit, quat.

    Record Article Feed 2010

  • Lorem dunt luptat ipit la conse consequis aut lor sim nit praesendit alis aut augait adit lut iuscidui tet dolendreet, veros delit, quat.

    Record Article Feed 2010

  • Lorem dunt luptat ipit la conse consequis aut lor sim nit praesendit alis aut augait adit lut iuscidui tet dolendreet, veros delit, quat.

    Record Article Feed 2010

  • Lorem dunt luptat ipit la conse consequis aut lor sim nit praesendit alis aut augait adit lut iuscidui tet dolendreet, veros delit, quat.

    Record Article Feed 2010

  • In fact I feel sorry for Marc delit and few here. marc delit i think needs to look back at the basics of buddhism and understands that it not just the width but basic depth that one needs to understand too.

    United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal 2009

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