delice

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/dɪˈliːs//diːˈlaɪs/

noun

Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.

“Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.”

OriginOld French delice ← Latin dēlicium →
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Meanings

delice1

noundelice (plural delices)

plural delices

  1. obsoleteDelight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.

    he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

delice2

verbdelice (third-person singular simple present delices, present participle delicing, simple past and past participle deliced)

present singular third person delices · participle present delicing · participle past deliced · past deliced

  1. transitiveTo rid of lice.

    Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.

Origin

delice · noun

  1. Latindēlicium
  2. Old Frenchdelice
  3. Englishdelice

From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.

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delice · verb

From de- + lice.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with delice

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Anagrams

decileceiled
Cite this entry
APA

delice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delice

MLA

“delice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delice. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “delice,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/delice.

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