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From Latin dēlectāre. Compare Middle English delect (“to ease the pain of (an ulcer)”). Doublet of delight.
動詞
delect (三人称単数 現在形 delects, 現在分詞 delecting, 過去形および過去分詞形 delected)
- (uncommon) To delight.
- 1510 September 14, [Andrew Chertsey], Ihesus. The Floure of the Commaundementes of God with Many Examples and Auctorytees Extracte and Drawen as Well of Holy Scryptures as of Other Doctours and Good Auncient Faders / the Whiche Is Moche Vtyle and Prouffytable vnto All People., London: […] Wynkyn de Worde, folio CCxxviii, recto:
- For they were gretely delected and enioyed togiders
- 1588, A. King, transl., Canisius’ Catech., 211; quoted in “† Delect, v.”, in James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 156, column 1:
- 1809, Sir Brooke Boothby, [6th] Bar[one]t, Fables and Satires, with a Preface on the Esopean Fable, volume II, Edinburgh: […] George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, London, page 219:
- Returned home, with superfluous lassitude, they delect themselves with their extreme usefulness, relate all they have said or done in the day, to-morrow to renew their impertinent futility.
- 1882, Frances Ann Kemble, Records of Later Life, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 215:
- While Mr. Rogers was thus delecting himself, in anticipation, with R⸺’s execution, Mrs. Grote, by whose side I was sitting on a low stool, quietly unfolded another letter of Sydney Smith’s, and silently held it before my eyes, and the very first words in it were a most ludicrous allusion to Rogers’s cadaverous appearance.
- 1914, Frederick C[aesar] de Sumichrast, Americans and the Britons, New York, N.Y.; London: D. Appleton and Company, page 263:
- This may seem a harsh judgment to pass on the newspaper-reading public which eagerly purchases and peruses these sheets; on the men of business who hurry over their columns, on the women who study them, on the girls and boys of still tender years who impregnate their minds with all the unsavoriness and all the abominations which are coarsely and crudely told in these debased productions of the publisher’s art, on the workmen who, after a day’s toil, delect themselves in the enjoyment of attacks on all that is best in the world, and in infinite details of all that is worst.
- 1926 April, Paul Morand, “Archie Spencer: A Tale of the Orient in Which a Dealer in Wild Animals is Miraculously Rescued”, in Vanity Fair, page 98:
- Ah Chew, the patron, and his family were probably drinking rice-brandy or fruit-wine and delecting themselves with birds[-]nest soup with some friends or neighbours; […]
- 1934, Wyndham Lewis, “A Moralist with a Corn Cob: A Study of William Faulkner”, in Life and Letters, volume x, page 312, column 1:
- A gigantic 480-page Morality, like Light in August, is to me profitless and tiresome: a Calvinist moralist, delecting himself with, and turning to good library-sale’s account, scenes of chopping, gashing, hacking, and slitting, is to me ‘abomination’ if it is not ‘bitchery’ – to use the words of one of his more typical figures, ‘Old Doc Hines’.
- 1969, Transcultural Aspects of Psychiatric Art, page 92:
- Others delect themselves in grandious ideas, wearing a crown.
関連する語
- delectability, delectable
- delectate, delectation
- delection
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