Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Delightful; delectable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Delightful; delectable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
delightful ;delectable
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Examples
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[155] "La parleure est plus delitable et plus commune à toutes gens."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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It was in that year, too, that one Martino da Canale, a clerk in the customs house, began to busy himself (like Chaucer after him) less with his accounts than with writing in the delectable French language ( 'por ce que lengue franceise cort parmi le monde, et est la plus delitable a lire et a oir que nule autre') a chronicle of Venice.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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The Italian Brunetto Latini, the master of Dante, wrote his Treasure in French because, he says, la parleure en est plus delitable et plus commune a toutes gens.
The Study of Poetry 1909
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At the third time he found a fair fountain and a much delitable place, and began sore to desire him to eat with him, and at the last he consented and ate.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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_la parleure plus delitable, il plus commune à toutes gens_ ( "the most delightful of languages and the most common to all peoples").
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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