By what reason could the same deity be denied unto Laurentia and Flora, which was given to Venus? Raleigh. DELACERATION. n. s. [from delacero, Latin.] A tearing in pieces. Dict. DELACRYMA'TION n.s. [delacrymatio, Latin.] A falling down of the humours; the waterishness of the eyes, or a weeping much. Dict. DELACTATION. n. s. [delactatio, Latin.] A weaning from the breast. Dict. DELAPSED. adj. [from delapsus, Latin. With physicians.] Bearing or falling down. It is used in speaking of the womb, and the like. Dict. To DELA'TE. v. a. [from delatus, Lat.] 1. To carry; to convey. Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated. 2. To accuse; to inform against. DELA'TION, n. s. [delatio, Latin.] 1. A carriage; conveyance. Bacon. In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them, and causeth them to be heard further. Bacon. It is certain that the delation of light is in an instant. Bacon. There is a plain delation of the sound from the teeth to the instrument of hearing. Bacon. 2. An accusation; an impeachment. DELA'TOR. n. s. [delator, Latin.] An accuser; an informer. What were these harpies but flatterers, delators, and inexpleably covetous? Sandys' Travels, Men have proved their own delators, and discovered their own most important secrets. Government of the Tongue No sooner was that small colony, wherewith the depopulated earth was to be replanted, come forth of the ark, but we meet with Cham, a delator to his own father, inviting his brethren to that execrable spectacle of their parent's nakedGovernment of the Tongue. To DELA'Y. v.a. [from delayer, Fr.] 1. To defer; to put off. ness. And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron. Exodus. Cyrus he found, on him his force essay'd; For Hector was to the tenth year delay'd. Dry. 2. To hinder; to frustrate; to keep suspended. 3. To detain, stop, or retard the course of. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milt. She flies the town; and, mixing with the throng Of madding matrons, bears the bride along: Wand'ring through woods and wilds, and de vious ways; And with these arts the Trojan match delays. Dryden. Be mindful, goddess, of thy promise made; Must sad Ulysses ever be delay'd? To DELA'Y. u. n. To stop; to cease from action. Pope. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas one to another in our minds, beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. DELA'Y. n. s. [from the verb.] Lucke. 1. A deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity. I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. Shakspeare's Richard 111. The conduct of our lives, and the management of our great concerns, will not bear delay. Locke. 2. Stay; stop. The keeper charm'd, the chief without delay Pass'd on, and took th' irremeable way. Dryd DELA'YER. n. s. [from delay.] One that defers; a putter off. DELECTABLE. adj. [delectabilis, Lat.] Pleasing; delightful. Ev'ning now approach'd: For we have also our ev'ning, and our morn; We ours for change delectable, not need. Miltona He brought thee into this delicious grove; This garden; planted with the trees of God, Delectable both to behold and taste! Milton. Some of his attributes, and the manifestations thereof, are not only highly delectable to the intellective faculty, but are suitably and easily conceptible by us, because apparent in his works; as his goodness, beneficence, wisdom, and power. Hale. The apple's outward form, Delectable, the witless swain beguiles; Till that with writhen mouth, and spattering noise, He tastes the bitter morsel. Philips. DELECTABLENESS. n. s. [from delectable.] Delightfulness; pleasantness. DELECTABLY. adv. Delightfully; pleasantly. DELECTATION. n. s. [delertatio, Lat.] Pleasure; delight. J Out break the tears for joy and delectation. Sir T. Morti To DELEGATE. v. a. [delego, Lat.] 1. To send away. 2. To send upon an embassy. 3. To intrust; to commit to another's power and jurisdiction. As God hath imprinted his authority in seve ral parts upon several estates of men, as princes, parents, spiritual guides; so he hath also dele gated and committed part of his care and provi dence unto them. Taylor. As God is the universal monarch, so we have all the relation of fellow subjects to him; and can pretend no farther jurisdiction over each other, than what he has delegated to us. Decay of Piety. Why does he wake the correspondent moon, And fill her willing lamp with liquid light; Commanding her with delegated pow'rs To beautify the world, and bless the night?. Prier 4. To appoint judges to hear and determine a particular cause. DELEGATE, n. s. [delegatus, Latin.] A deputy; a commissioner; a vicar; any one that is sent to act for, or represent, another. If after her Any shall live, which dare true good prefer, Ev'ry such person is her delegate T'accomplish that which should have been her Donne fate. They must be severe exactors of accounts from their delegates and ministers of justice. Taylor. Prior. Let the young Austrian then her terrours bear, Great as he is, her delegate in war. Elect by Jove, his delegate of sway, With joyous pride the summons I'd obey. Pope. 3 F DELEGATE. adj. [delegatus, Lat.] Deputed; sent to act for, or represent, another. Princes in judgment, and their delegate judges, must judge the causes of all persons uprightTaylor. ly and impartially. DELEGATES [Court of] A court wherein all causes of appeal, by way of devolution from either of the archbishops, are decided. Ayliffe's Parergon. DELEGATION. n. s. [delegatio, Latin.] 1. A sending away. 2. A putting in commission. 3. The assignment of a debt to another. DELENIFICAL. adj. [delenificus, Latin.] Having virtue to assuage or ease pain. Dict. Fo DELETE. v. a. [from deleo, Latin.] Dict. To blot out. DELETERIOUS. adj. [deleterius, Latin.] Deadly; destructive; of a poisonous quality. Many things, neither deleterious by substance or quality, are yet destructive by figure, or some occasional activity. Brown. DE'LETERY. adj. [from deleterius, Lat.] Destructive; deadly; poisonous. Nor doctor epidemick, Though stor'd with deletery med'cines, To both the under worlds as he. DELETION. n. s. [deletio, Latin.] i. Act of razing or blotting out. 2. A destruction. Hudibras. Indeed if there be a total deletion of every person of the opposing party or country, then the victory is complete, because none remains to call it in question. DELF. n. s. [from delpan, Saxon, to DELFE. dig.] 1. A mine; a quarry; a pit dug. Hale. Yet could not such mines, without great pains and charges, if at all, be wrought: the delfs would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could suffice to lay and keep them dry. Ray on the Creation. 2. Earthen ware; counterfeit China ware, made at Delft in Holland. Thus barter honour for a piece of delf! To DELIBERATE. v. n. [delibero, Lat.] Addison. 1. Circumspect; wary; advised; discreet. Most Grave-belly was deliberate, Not rash like his accusers. Shakspeare's Coriol. 2. Slow; tedious; not sudden; gradual. Commonly it is for virtuous considerations, that wisdom so far prevaileth with men as to nake them desirous of slow and deliberate death, against the stream of their sensual inclination. Hooker. Echoes are some more sudden, and chop again ness; caution. They would not stay the fair production of acts, in the order, gravity, and deliberateness, be fitting a parliament. King Charles. DELIBERATION. n. s. [deliberatio, Lat.] The act of deliberating; thought, in order to choice. If mankind had no power to avoid ill or choose good by free deliberation, it should never be guilty of any thing that was done. Hammond DELIBERATIVE. adj. [deliberations, Lat.] Pertaining to deliberation; apt to consider. DELIBERATIVE. n. s. [from the adjec tive.] The discourse in which a ques tion is deliberated. In deliberatives, the point is, what is evil: and of good, what is greater; and of evil, what is less. Bacon. DE'LICACY. n. s. [delicatesse, French, of delicia, Latin.] 1. Daintiness; pleasantness to the taste. On hospitable thoughts intent, What choice to chuse for delicacy best. Milt. 2. Nicety in the choice of food. 3. Any thing highly pleasing to the senses. These delicacies 4. I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flow'rs, Milten Walks, and the melody of birds. Softness; elegant or feminine beauty. A man of goodly presence, in whom streng making took not away delicacy, nor beauty fierceness. Sidney. 5. Nicety; minute accuracy, Van Dyck has even excelled him in the deli gacy of his colouring, and in his cabinet pieces Dryden You may see into the spirit of them all, and form your pen from those general notions and delicacy of thoughts and happy words. 6. Neatness; elegance of dress. 7. Politeness of manners: contrary to grossness.. 8. Indulgence; gentle treatment. Persons born of families noble and rich, derive a weakness of constitution from the ease and luxury of their ancestors, and the delicacy of their own education. Temple. Tenderness; scrupulousness. Any zealous for promoting the interest of his country, must conquer all that tenderness and delicacy which may make him afraid of being spoken ill of. Asidiran 10. Weakness of constitution. DELICATE. adj. [delicat, French.] 11. Smallness; tenuity. 1. Nice; pleasing to the taste; of an agreeable flavour. 5. Politely. 6. Effeminately. DE'LICATENESS. n. s. [from delicate.] The state of being delicate; tenderness; softness; effeminacy. The delicate woman among you would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the Deut. ground, for delicateness and tenderness. DELICATES. n. s. [from delicate.] Niceties; rarities; that which is choice and dainty. The shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Are far beyond a prince's delicates. Shakspeare. They their appetites not only feed With delicates of leaves and marshy weed, But with thy sickle reap the rankest land. Dryden. With abstinence all delicates he sees, And can regale himself with toast and cheese. King's Cookery. DE'LICES. n. s. pl. [delicia, Latin.] Pleasures. This word is merely French. And now he has pour'd out his idle mind In dainty delices and lavish joys, Having his warlike weapons cast behind, And flowers in pleasures and vain pleasing toys. Spenser. DELICIOUS. adj. [delicieux, French, from delicatus, Latin.] Sweet; delicate; that affords delight; agreeable; charming; grateful to the sense or mind. It is highly probable, that upon Adam's disobedience Almighty God chased him out of Pa'radise, the fairest and most delicious part of the earth, into some other the most barren and unpleasant. Woodward. In his last hours his easy wit display; Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay. Smith. Still on that breast enamour'd let me lie, Still drink delicious poison from thy eye. Poper DELICIOUSLY. adv. [from delicious.] Sweetly; pleasantly; delightfully. How much she hath glorified herself and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her. Revelations. DELICIOUSNESS. n. s. [from delicious.] Delight; pleasure; joy. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Shaks. Let no man judge of himself, or of the blessings and efficacy of the sacrament itself, by any sensible relish, by the gust and deliciousness which he sometimes perceives and at other times does not perceive. Taylor DELIGATION. n. s. [deligatio, Latin.] A binding up in chirurgery." The third intention is deligation, or retaining the parts so joined together. Wisem. SurgDELIGHT. n. s. [delice. French, from delector, Latin.] 1. Joy; content; satisfaction. 2. Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants 1 Samuel love thee. That which gives delight. While you perform your antick round. Shaks.. Titus Vespasian was not more the delight of human kind: the universal empire made him only more known, and more powerful, but could not make him more beloved. Dryden. She was his care, his hope, and his delight; Most in his thought, and ever in his sight. Dry. To DELIGHT. v. a. [delector, Latin.] To please; to content; to satisfy; to afford pleasure. The princes delighting their conceits with confirming their knowledge, seeing wherein the 'sea-discipline differed from the land service, had pleasing entertainment. Sidney Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalms. Poor insects, whereof some are bees, delighted with flowers, and their sweetness; others beetles, delighted with other kinds of viands. Locke. He heard, he took; and, pouring down his throat, Delighted, swill'd the large luxurious draught. Pope. To DELIGHT, V. N. To have delight or pleasure in. It is followed by in. Doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 2 Samuel. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. Psalms. DELIGHTFUL. adj. [from delight and full.] Pleasant; charming; full of delight. He was given to sparing in so immeasurable sort, that he did not only bar himself from the DELIGHTFULNESS. n. s. [from delight.] Sidney. This indeed shows the excellency of the object, but doth not altogether take away the delightfulness of the knowledge. Tillotson. DELIGHTSOME. adj. [from delight.] Pleasant; delightful. The words themselves being so ancient, the knitting of them so short and intricate, and the whole periods and compass of his speech so deightsume for the roundness, and so grave for the strangeness. Spenser. God has furnished every one with the same means of exchanging hunger and thirst for deGrew. lightsome vigour. DELIGHTSOMELY, adv. [from delightsome.] Pleasantly; in a delightful man ner. DELIGHTSOMENESS, n. s. [from delightsome Pleasantness; delightfulness. To DELINEATE. v. a. [delineo, Lat.] 1. To make the first draught of a thing; to design; to sketch. 2. To paint; to represent a true likeness in a picture. The licentia pictoria is very large: with the same reason they may delineate old Nestor like Adonis, Hecuba with Helen's face, and Time with Absalom's head. Brown. 2. To describe; to set forth in a lively manner. It followeth, to delineate the region in which God first planted his delightful garden. Raleigh, I have not here time to delineate to you the glories of God's heavenly kingdom; nor, indeed, could I tell you, if I had, what the happiness of that place and portion is. Wake. DELINEATION. n. s. [delineatio, Latin.] The first draught of a thing. In the orthographical schemes, there should be a true delineation, and the just dimensions. Mortimer. DELINIMENT. n. s. [delinimentum, Lat.]' A mitigating, or assuaging. Dict. DELINQUENCY. n. s. delinquentia, Latin.] A fault; a failure in duty; a misdeed. They never punish the greatest and most intolerable delinquency of the tumults, and their exciters. King Charles. Can Thy years determine like the age of man, That thou should'st my delinquencies enquire. And with variety of tortures tire? Sandys. A delinquent ought to be cited in the place or jurisdiction where the delinquency was committed by him. Ayliffe. DELINQUENT. n. s. [from delinquens, Latin.] An offender; one that has committed a crime or fault. Such an envious state, That sooner will accuse the magistrate Than the delinquent; and will rather grieve The treason is not acted, than believe. Ben J. All ruined, not by war, or any other disaster, but by justice and sentence, as delinquents and criminals. Ban He had, upon frivolous surmises, been sent for as a delingent, and been brought upen his knees. -Dryden To DE'LIQUATE. v. n. [deliqueo, Lat.] To melt; to be dissolved. It will be resolved into a liquor very analogous to that which the chymnists make of salt of tur tar, left in moist cellars to deliquate. Beyk Such an ebullition as we see made by the min ture of some chymical liquors, as oil of vitriol and deliquated salt of tartar. Cudworth. DELIQUA'TION. n.s. [deliquatio, Latin.] A melting; a dissolving. DELIQUIUM. n. s. [Latin. A chymical term. A distillation by dissolving any calcined matter, by hanging it up in moist cellars, into a lixivious humour. DELI'RAMENT. n.s. [deliramentum, Lat.] A doting or foolish fancy. To DELIRATE. v. n. [deliro, Latin] To dote; to rave; to talk or act idly. Dict. Dict. Dict. DELIRIUM. n. s. [Latin.] Alienation of mind; dotage. Too great alacrity and promptness in answering, especially in persons naturally of another temper, is a sign of an approaching dures; and in a feverish delirium there is a small ma mation of the brain. Arbutinat on Dist. DELITIGATION, n. s. [from delitiga Lat.] A striving; a chiding; a core tending. Dict. To DELIVER. v. a, [delivrer, French] 1. To set free; to release. Thus she the captive did deliver; The captive thus gave up his quiver. 2. To save; to rescue. Pri Deliver me, O my God, out of the band of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Prents I was like to be apprehended for the witch of Brainford; but that my admirable dexterity of wit, counterfeiting the action of an old wein, delivered me. Shikbaars 3. To surrender; to put into one's hands; to resign; to give up; to yield. In any case thou shalt der him the pled again when the sun goeth down. Dextera And David said to him, Canst thou bring m down to this company? And he said, Swear un me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company. 18am. They obeyed not thy commandments where fore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and captivity. Sidney. Procles seemed so to overrun his age in strength, that Musidorus could not perform any action on horse or foot more strongly, or deliver that strength more nimbly. To DELIVER over. v. a. 1. To put into another's hands; to leave to the discretion of another. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. Psalms. The constables have delivered her over to me; and she shall have whipping enough, I warrant her. Shakspeare. 2. To give from hand to hand; to transmit. If a true account may be expected by future ages from the present, your lordship will be delivered over to posterity in a fairer character than I have given. Dryden. To DELIVER up. v. a. To surrender; to give up. He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not, with him also, freely give us all things? Romans. Are the cities, that I got with wounds, Deliver'd up again with peaceful words? Shak. Happy having such a son, That would deliver up his greatness so Shakspeare. Into the hand of justice. DELIVERANCE. n. s. [delivrance, Fr.] 1. The act of freeing from captivity, slavery, or any oppression; rescue. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted; to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind; to set at liberty those that are bound. Luke. O God! command deliverances for Jacob. Psalms. Whate'er befalls, your life shall be my care; One death or one deliv'rance we vill share. 4. The act of speaking; utterance; pronunciation: now commonly delivery. If seriously I may convey my thoughts In this my light deliverance, I have spoke With one that in her sex, her years, profassion, Wisdom and constancy, hath amaz'd me more Than I dare blame my weakness. Shakspeare, DELIVERER. n. s. [from deliver.] 1. A saver; a rescuer; a preserver; a releaser. It doth notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages, in the approbation of the ex tirpating and debellating of giants, monsters, and foreign tyrants, not only as lawful, but as meritorious even of divine honour; and this, although the deliverer came from the one end of the world unto the other. Bacon. By that seed Is meant thy great Deliverer, who shall bruise The serpent's head. Milton. Andrew Doria has a statue erected to him at the entrance of the doge's palace, with the glorious title of deliverer of the commonwealth Addison. Him their deliverer Europe does confess; All tongues extol him, all religions bless. Halifax. 2. A relater; one that communicates something by speech or writing. Divers chymical experiments, delivered by sober authors, have been believed false, only because the menstruums were not as highly rectified, or exquisitely depurated, as those that were used by the deliverers of those experiments. DELIVERY. n. s. [from the verb.] That he would labour my delivery. Boyle Shaks. After the delivery of your royal father's person into the hands of the army, I undertaking to the queen-mother that I would find some means to get access to him, she was pleased to send me. Denbam. Nor did he in any degree contribute to the delivery of his house, which was at first imagined, because it was so ill or not at all defended. Clarendon. 4. Utterance; pronunciation; speech. We allege what the scriptures themselves do usually speak, for the saving force of the word of God; not with restraint to any certain kind of delivery, but howsoever the same shall chance to be made known. Hooker. I was charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with his discourses. › Addison, 5. Use of the limbs; activity. Musidorus could not perform any action on horse or foot more strongly, or deliver that strength more nimbly, or become the delivery, more gracefully, or employ all more virtuously. Sidney. The earl was the faller, and much the stronger; but the duke had the neater limbs, and freer delivery. 6. Childbirth. Wotton. Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out.. Isaiah. DELL. #. S. [from dal, Dutch.] A pit; a |