delice

See also: délice and dělíce

English

Etymology 1

From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈliːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

delice (plural delices)

1. (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

Derived terms

• flower delice

Etymology 2

From de- +‎ lice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːˈlaɪs/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To rid of lice.

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

Anagrams

• ceiled, cieled, decile