Lexicographical Neighbors of Delectated
Literary usage of Delectated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"Among the many papers with which we hope and trust our readers will be greatly
delectated, is a narrative in numbers, by Lieutenant FOXHALL A. PARKER, Jr., ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1833)
"... and a setting sun—delectated my enraptured eyne, and showed fairer to my view
than the creations of a Claude, or the sublimities of a Salvator! ..."
3. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1853)
"The Ortolans of Southern France, and the succulent Reed-birds of America, have
one and all delectated my palate with their fragrant juices. ..."
4. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1883)
"... looked as it nothing would be more grateful than a cool corner in some Esquimaux
farm-yard. The members of the delectated convocation were ul1 ..."
5. Contrasts in Social Progress by Edward Payson Tenney (1910)
"Aristotle was esteemed by the scholars for his physics, his rhetoric, his logic;
and the stoical apothegms of Antonius, Epictetus and Seneca delectated ..."
6. More about the Mongols by James Gilmour (1893)
"Encamped in a picturesque and rather deep valley. Fuel for the cooking, but water
not yet arrived. delectated camels with Psalms. Decidedly cold. ..."
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