Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To taste; take a sip of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.
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- verb obsolete To
taste ; to take asip of; todabble in.
Etymologies
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Latin delibatus ("diminished, tasted"), past participle of delibo ("I take away from, I taste from"); de- + libo ("I taste").
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reesetee commented on the word delibate
1) To take a little of, taste, sip (also used figuratively). 2) To take away as a small part, to pluck, cull.
November 5, 2007
yarb commented on the word delibate
Some years ago, when I was hitch-hiking in the west country, I was invited to dinner by an eccentric tractor driver. He lived with a Franciscan friar called Fabio, and for our evening's repast the two had prepared a vat of eel stew which they called eelibate.
Before long I was watching the celibate delibate eelibate.
January 15, 2008