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delectable, a.|dɪˈlɛktəb(ə)l|
[ME. a. OF. delectable, ad. L. dēlectābilis, f. dēlectāre to delight: see -able. The earlier popular form in OF. was delitable, delitable.
In Shakes. and P. Fletcher still stressed ˈdelectable.]
Affording delight; delightful, pleasant.
Now little used in ordinary speech, except ironically or humorously; used seriously in poetry and elevated prose.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xiv. 155 A gret contree and a fulle delectable. 14..Tundale's Vis. 1782 Musyk clere That full delectabull was to here. 1529More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1216/2 Delectable allectiues to moue a manne to synne. 1555Eden Decades 75 Suche newes and presentes as they brought were delectable to the kinge. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. lxxvi. 540 Woodrowe flowreth in May, and then is the smell most delectable. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii, Athenæus, a delectable Author. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 539 Trees of God, Delectable both to behold and taste. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 165 The Shepherds there, who welcomed them..unto the delectable Mountains. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy I. xi, Of which original journey..a most delectable narrative will be given in the progress of this work. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. II. v. ii. 230 note, For the beautiful lines in the second eclogue of Virgil we have this delectable hexametric version. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 31 When the delectable hour those days did fully determine. 1880H. James Benvolio iii. 372 The old man had told him that he had a delectable voice. Mod. Advt. Delectable Lozenges, for clearing the throat. |