Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DE-JEU'NER – DE-LEC'TA-BLY
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DE-JEU'NER, n. [Fr.]
A breakfast, or morning meal.
DE-JURE, a. [L.]
Of right. [See De facto.]
DE-LAC-ER-A'TION, n. [L. delacero.]
A tearing in pieces. [Not used.]
DE-LAC-RY-MA'TION, n. [L. delacrymatio; de and lacrymatio, a weeping.]
A preternatural discharge of watery humors from the eyes; waterishness of the eyes. – Dict.
DE-LAC-TA'TION, n. [L. delactatio.]
A weaning. [Not used.] – Dict.
DE-LAP-SA'TION, n.
A falling down. – Ray.
DE-LAPSE', v.i. [delaps'; L. delabor, delapsus; de and labor, to slide.]
To fall or slide down.
DE-LAPS'ED, pp.
Fallen down.
DE-LAP'SION, n.
A falling down of the uterus, anus, &c.
DE-LATE', v.t. [L. delatus; de and latus, part. of fero, to bear.]
- To carry; to convey. [Little used.] – Bacon.
- To accuse; to inform against; that is, to bear a charge against. – B. Jonson.
DE-LA'TION, n.
- Carriage; conveyance; as, the delation of sound. [Little used.] – Bacon.
- Accusation; act of charging with a crime; a term of the civil law.
DE-LA'TOR, n. [L.]
An accuser; an informer. – Sandys.
DE-LAY', n.
- A lingering; stay; stop.
- A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintif.
- Hinderance for a time.
DE-LAY', v.i.
To linger; to move slow; or to stop for a time. There are certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of ideas, beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. – Locke.
DE-LAY', v.t. [Fr. delai, delay; Sp. dilatar; Port, id., to delay; It. dilata, delay; dilature, to dilate, to spread; from L. dilatus, differo. We see that delay is from spreading, extending. See Dilate.]
- To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer. My lord delayeth his coming. – Matt. xxiv.
- To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delayed by bad roads. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed / The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. – Milton.
- To allay. [Not in use, nor proper.] – Spenser.
DE-LAY'ED, pp.
Deferred; detained; hindered for a time; retarded.
DE-LAY'ER, n.
One who defers; one who lingers.
DE-LAY'ING, ppr.
Putting off; deferring; procrastinating; retarding; detaining.
DE-LAY'MENT, n.
Hinderance. – Gower.
DEL-CRED'ER-E, n.
A guaranty given by fators, binding them to warrant the solvency of the purchasers of goods, which they sell on credit. This is done for a premium.
DE'LE, v.t. [L. imperative of deleo.]
Blot out; erase.
DEL'E-BLE, a. [L. delebilis.]
That can be blotted out. – More.
DE-LEC'TA-BLE, a. [L. delectabilis, from delector, to delight. See Delight.]
Delightful; highly pleasing; that gives great joy or pleasure; as, a delectable garden. – Milton.
Delightfulness. – Barret.
DE-LEC'TA-BLY, adv.
Delightfully.