And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron. Exod. xxxii. 1. I have learned that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. Shakspeare. Richard III. That misery which must be is mitigated with speed, and aggravated with delay. Bp. Hall. Contemplations. Delayed thankfulness is not worthy of acceptation. Id. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton. She flies the town, and mixing with the throng Of madding matrons, bears the bride along: Wandering through woods and wilds, and devious ways, And with these arts the Trojan match delays. Id. Dryden. Cyrus he found, on him his force essayed; For Hector was to the tenth year delayed. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas one to another in our minds, beyond which they can neither Locke. delay nor hasten. Sullen and a delayer of Justice. At thirty man suspects himself a fool; At fifty chides his infamous delay; -In all the magnanimity of thought Pope. Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. DELECTABLE, adj. Young. Fr. Span. and DELECTABLENESS, n. s. Portug. delectable; DELECTABLY, adv. Ital. dilettabile; Lat. DELECTATION, n. s. delectabilis ; from delecto, (de and lacto, to suckle) to delight. De lightful; pleasing; state of being pleasing or delightful. Out break the tears for joy and delectation. Evening now approached : He brought thee into this delirious grove, Id. DELEGA'TION. DEL'EGATE, v. a., n. s. & adj. ? Span. and S Portug. delegar; Fr. deleguer; Lat. deligo; de and lego; Gr. Xeyw; Heb. p; to choose. To appoint another one's representative; to entrust with power. A delegate is the party so commissioned; a vicar. The court of delegates is defined by Ayliffe as a court wherein all causes of appeal, by way of devolution from either of the archbishops, are decided. If after her To' accomplish that which should have been her fate. Donne. Princes in judgment, and their delegate judges, must judge the causes of all persons uprightly and impartially. Id. When bishops divided parishes, and fixt the presbyters upon a cure, so many parishes as they distinguished, so many delegations they made. Bp. Taylor. Why does he wake the correspondent moon And fill her willing lamp with liquid light; Commanding her, with delegated powers, To beautify the world, and bless the night? Prior. Let the young Austrian then her terrours bear, Elect by Jove, his delegate of sway, Id. Pope. As God is the universal monarch, so we have all the relation of fellow-subjects to him; and can pretend no farther jurisdiction over each other, than what he has delegated to us. Decay of Piety. The goddess ceased,-the delegated throng, O'er the wide plains delighted rush along; In dusky squadrons, and in shining groups, Hosts follow hosts, and troops succeed to troops. Darwin. These dele DELEGATES, COURT OF, is the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. gates are appointed by the king's commission under his great seal, and issuing out of chancery, to represent his royal person, and hear all appeals to him made by virtue of the statute 25 Henry VIII. cap. 19. The commission is usually filled with lords, spiritual and temporal, judges of the courts at Westminster, and doctors of the civil law. DELENIFICAL, adj. Lat. delenificus. Having virtue to assuage or ease pain. DELETE, v. a. Lat. deletus, from deleo, DELETERIOUS, adj.de, privative, and lino to DEL'ETERY, paint. To blot out; to obliterate deleterious 'and deletery signify, destructive; poisonous; deletion is razing out or destroying. DELETION, n. s. Many things, neither deleterious by substance of quality, are yet destructive by figure, or some occasional activity. Browne. DELFT WARE is a kind of pottery of a baked earth, covered with an enamel or white glazing, which gives it the appearance and neatness of porcelain. Some kinds of it differ much from others, either in sustaining sudden heat without breaking, or in the beauty and regularity of their forms, of their enamel, and of the painting with which they are ornamented. In general, the fine and beautiful enamelled potteries, which approach the nearest to porcelain in external appearance, are least able to resist a brisk fire. Those which best sustain a sudden heat are coarse, and resemble common pottery. The basis of this pottery is clay, which is to be mixed, when too fat, with such a quantity of sand, that the earth shall preserve enough of its ductility to be worked, moulded, and turned easily and yet that its fatness shall be sufficiently taken from it, that it may not crack or shrink too much in drying or in baking. Vessels formed of this earth must be dried very gently to avoid cracking. They are then to be placed in a furnace to receive a slight baking, which is only meant to give them a certain consistence of hardness. And, lastly, they are to be covered with an enamel or glazing; which is done by putting upon the vessels thus prepared, the enamel, which has been ground very fine, and diluted with water. As vessels on which the enamel is applied are but slightly baked, they readily imbibe the water in which the enamel is suspended, and a layer of this enamel adheres to their surface: these vessels may then be painted with colors composed of metallic calces, mixed and ground with a fusible glass. When they are become perfectly dry, they are to be placed in the furnace, included in cases of baked earth called seggars, and exposed to a heat capable of fusing uniformly the enamel which covers them. This heat, given to fuse the enamel, being much stronger than that which was applied at first to give some consistence to the ware, is also the beat necessary to complete the baking of it. The furnace, and the colors used for painting this ware, are the same as those employed for porcelain, which, in Holland, was once exclusively famous for delft ware, but its sale has lately been greatly rivalled by the potteries of England and Germany. DELFT, a fine old town of South Holland, once the capital of Delftland, is situated on a canal called the Shie, which, after traversing the city, joins the Meuse at Schiedam and Delftshaven. Its figure is a parallelogram, about two miles in circuit; the streets are clean, neat, and well built, having many handsome houses and magnificent edifices, particularly the stadt-house. The city holds a third rank in the country; its magistracy is composed of four burgo-masters, and seven eschevins, jointly with the vroedschap or common council, who name the escout for three years, and continue him if they judge proper. It has an arsenal generally well furnished; and the country around it is agreeable, but so low, that, if great care were not taken to keep the dykes and sluices in good repair, it would soon be overwhelmed. The building of this city was begun in 1075, by Godfrey le Bossu, after he had conquered Holland; since which it has often experienced the calamities of war, as well as those of fire. In the fourteenth century, Albert de Bavaria, count of Holland, took it after a siege of six weeks, dismantled and ruined the castle, and obliged the city to pay 10,000 crowns. In 1536, it was reduced to ashes by a dreadful fire, during which a stork, not being able to save her young, was observed to precipitate herself into the flames. The city was soon after rebuilt with greater magnificence; but in 1654 it was again greatly damaged by fire, which destroyed a magazine of gun-powder, and above 500 houses; since which the powder-magazine is built at some distance from the town. Before the Reformation, Delft had ten religious houses, besides hospitals and chapels. In one of the present churches is the tomb of William I. prince of Orange, who was assassinated in a house near, which is still standing; and in another that of admiral Tromp. The celebrated Hugo Grotius was a native of this place. The Doelen inn was the scene of many of the councils and preparations of the Dutch patriots in their struggles against Spain. Delft was formerly much celebrated for beer, of which it exported large quantities; and also for a peculiar kind of glazed earthenware, called delft ware. Here are now made several kinds of fine cloth, and carpets. Butter and tobacco pipes also are made here in considerable quantities. It is nine miles northwest of Rotterdam, and thirty south-west of Amsterdam. DELHI, or DELLI, an extensive province of Hindostan, bound on the north by Lahore, and several districts in Northern Hindostan, as Besseer, Dewarcote, and Serinagur; to the south by Agra and Ajmeer; to the east it has Oude, and various ridges of high hills, which separate it from Northern Hindostan; and to the west Ajmeer and Lahore. In length it may be estimated at 240 miles, by 180 the average breadth. The greater part of this province is in the most wretched state of barrenness, having been the seat of continued war for many years; and being naturally very sterile, though formerly well planted with mangoe trees, scarcely one is now to be seen. The Cauggar River overflows part of the Hurrianch, during the rainy season, after which the pasturage is excellent, and the country tolerably healthy until the desert to the west becomes heated; and, between the Jumna and Sattulege, the soil produces wheat, barley, gram, and other grains; but it is but little cultivated. Irrigation is necessary to insure any crop, and water is found at ten or twelve cubits from the surface of the earth; yet wells are seen only near towns and villages. This province is, at present, occupied in the following manner. The whole district to the east of the Jumna and round the city of Delhi, with a considerable portion of the north-eastern quarter, are possessed by the British, and guverned by a regular civil establishment. The south-west is occupied by the Machery rajah of Alvar, the rajah of Bhurtpoor, and other native chiefs, who are in alliance with, or under the influence of the British. The country to the north-west of the Jumna and south of the Suttulege is occupied by a number of petty Seik chiefs, and other native princes, in dependence on the British, who form a barrier to their territories in this quarter. The western frontier has a natural protection, from the immense extent of desert and sterile territory by which it is bounded. Except in the country possessed by the British, the inhabitants still continue to carry on internal warfare; to which they have been so long accustomed, that they are extremely expert in the use of arms, particularly the lance, sabre, and matchlock. The principal towns are Delhi, Sirhind, Saharunpore, Buriely, Anoopsheher, Merat, Hissar, Seerdhuna, Patteealah, and Budavoon. DELHI, a celebrated city, for many years the capital of the foregoing province of Hindostan, is situated on the banks of the Jumna; and during the era of its prosperity, is said to have covered a space of twenty miles in length. Its ancient name was Indraput, or Inderprest. It was taken by the Mahommedans in the year 1193, under Cuttubaddeen Khan, who fixed his residence here, and made it his capital. Several succeeding emperors increased and improved it till the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the Afghan monarch, Sekunder Lody, made Agra the seat of empire, and Delhi was neglected until the return of Homayon from Persia in the year 1554, when he rebuilt the old fort of Inderprest, and named it Deenpunnah, or the asylum of religion. During the reigns of Akbar and Jehangire, Delhi was again deserted; but the emperor Shan Jehan restored it to its former splendor, and expended immense sums of money on the present fortress, the cathedral, mosque, &c. Superb palaces, mosques, and colleges, in different parts of the city, were raised by his court and followers. The walls which environ the town were put into repair, and its seven gates erected or beautified. Its noble gardens were also now laid out, and the tombs of the saints and deceased Sovereigns thoroughly repaired. The canal was lengthened and deepened, and Delhi was rendered the glory of Hindostan. One garden alone is said to have cost a million sterling. The modern city, apportioned into thirty-six divisions, each na ned after some ancient noble family, con tains many good brick houses. The streets are narrow, with the exception of two; the first leading from the palace to the Delhi Gate, which is broad and spacious, and had formerly an aqueduct along its whole extent; the second from the palace to the Lahore Gate. The bazaars appear in a dilapidated state; but in the Chandeny Choke, or Silver Square, is a number of wellfurnished shops. The population has considerably increased under the British management, and every species of property is yearly rising in value. The English resident and other gentlemen live in the town, while the troops have a distinct cantonment. Precious stones of a good quality are to be had at Delhi, particularly the large red and black cornelian and peerozas; becdree hookah bottoms are also manufactured here. The cultivation in the neighbourhood is principally on the banks of the Jumna, where corn, rice, millet, and indigo, are raised. It stands in long. 77° 19′ E., lat. 28° 43′ N. DELIA, in antiquity, a festival celebrated every fifth year in the island of Delos, in honor of Apollo. It was first instituted by Theseus; who, at his return from Crete, placed a statue there, which he had received from Ariadne. At the celebration they crowned the statue of the goddess with garlands, appointed a choir of music, and exhibited horse-races. They afterwards led a dance, in which they imitated, by their motions, the various windings of the Cretan labyrinth, from which Theseus had extricated himself by Ariadne's assistance.-There was another festival of the same name yearly celebrated by the Athenians in Delos. It also was instituted by Theseus, who, in going to Crete, made a vow, that he would yearly visit the temple of Delos The persons employed in this annual procession were called Deliaste and Theori. The ship, the same which carried Theseus, and had been carefully preserved by the Athenians, was called Theoria and Delias. When the ship was ready for the voyage, the priest of Apollo solemnly adorned the stern with garlands, and a universal lustration was made all over the city. The Theori were crowned with laurels, and before them proceeded men armed with axes, in commemoration of Theseus, who had cleared the way from Trozen to Athens, and delivered the country from robbers. When the ship arrived at Delos, they offered solemn sacrifices to the god of the island, and celebrated a festival to his honor. After this they retired to their ship and sailed back to Athens, where all the people of the city ran in crowds to meet them. Every appearance of festivity prevailed at their approach, and the citizens opened their doors and prostrated themselves before the Deliaste as they walked in procession. During this festival it was unlawful to put to death any malefactor, and on that account the life of Socrates was prolonged for thirty days. DELIACUS, among the ancients, denoted a poulterer, or a person who sold fowls, fatted capons, eggs, &c., because the people of Delos first practised this occupation. Cicero, in his Academic Questions, lib. iv., Pliny, lib. x. cap. 30, and Columella, lib. viii. cap. 8, mention the Deliaci. In deliberatives, the point is, what is evil; and, of good, what is greater; and of evil, what is less. Id. Most Grave-belly was deliberate, Not rash, like his accusers. Shakspeare. Coriolanus. They would not stay the fair production of acts, in the order, gravity, and deliberateness befitting a parliament. King Charles. How should we deliberate in our actions, which are so subject to imperfection! since it pleased thine infinite perfection, not out of need, to take leisure. Bishop Hall. Contemplations. If mankind had no power to avoid ill or choose good by free deliberation, it should never be guilty of any thing that was done. Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. Hume. DELIBERANDI ANNUS, in the Scottish law, a year allowed to an heir, to deliberate whether he will enter as heir or not. DELIBERATIVE VOICE, a right to give advice and to vote in an assembly. In councils, the bishops have deliberative voices; those beneath them have only consultative voices. DELICATE, adj. & n. s. DEL'ICACY, n.s. DEL'ICATENESS, Fr. delicat; Span. and Port, delicado; Ital. delicato; Lat. DEL'ICATELY, delicatus; from deDELICES, n. s. & pl. licia, delights. Agreeable to the taste, or the senses generally; nice; of small constituent parts; felicitous in construction; elegant: and, as agreeableness, sweet, attractive grace,' is peculiarly feminine: a delicate is an effeminate, though not an agreeable man; and expresses also inability to bear hardships. A delicate is used by the Tatler for a nice man' but the plural substantive, deli cates, expresses, like the old word delices, the same as delicacies, i. e. dainties, agreeable viands. And kingis of the erthe and marchauntis of the erthe diden fornycacioun with hir, and thei ben maad riche of the vertue of delices of hir. Wiclif. Apoc. 18. The delicate woman among you would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground, for delicateness and tenderness. Deut. xxviii. 56. Yet was I late promised otherwyse, Eat not delicately, or nicely; that is, be not troublesome to thyself or others in the choice of thy meats, or the delicacy of thy sauces. Taylor. Persons born of families noble and rich, derive a weakness of constitution from the ease and luxury of their ancestors, and the delicacy of their own education. Temple. A man of goodly presence, in whom strong making took not away delicacy, nor beauty fierceness. Sidney. Van Dyck has even excelled him in the delicacy of his colouring, and in his cabinet pieces. Dryden. Taylor. And if some nice and likuorous appetite Bp. Hall. Satires iii. 1. It is highly probable, that upon Adam's disobedience Almighty God chased him out of Paradise, the fairest and most delicious part of the earth, into some other the most barren and unpleasant. Woodward. Still on that breast enamoured let me lie, Still drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope. But since, to make use of your own allusion, the cherries began now to crowd the market, and their season was almost over, we consulted our future enjoyments, and endeavoured to make the exquisite pleasure that delicious fruit gave our taste as lasting as we could. Spectator. In his last hours his easy wit display: Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay. Smith. Fr. delec DELIGHT', v. a., v. n. & n. s.) DELIGHTFUL, adj. DELIGHT FULLY, adv. DELIGHTFULNESS, n. s. DELIGHT SOME, DELIGHT SOMELY, DELIGHT SOMENESS. ter; Span. and Port. deleytar; It, dilettare, from Lat.delectare, deligo. See DELEGATE. To please in a high degree; to nave pleasure, followed by in. Delightsome and delightful are synonymous, as are delightsomely and delightfully. Delight is either the satisfaction and pleasure felt or the object that affords them. Doth my lord, the king, delight in this thing? 2 Sam. xxiv. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. Psalm cxii. 1. For I delyte togidre to the law of God aftir the ynner man, but I see a nother law in my membris aghen fightynge the law of my soule. Wiclif. Romayns 7. To liven in delit was ever his wone, For he was Epicures owen sone That held opinion that plein delits Was veraily felicite parfite. Chaucer. Prol. to Cant. Tales. And though be lyste to see his ladyes grace full sore, Such pleasures as delight his eye, do not his helthe Surrey. restore. The words themselves being so ancient, the knitting of them so short and intricate, and the whole periods and compass of his speech so delightsome for the roundness, and so grave for the strangeness. Spenser. ment. Bp. Hall. Contemplations. The princes delighting their conceits with confirming their knowledge, seeing wherein the sea-discipline differed from the land service, had pleasing entertainSidney. This indeed shews the excellency of the object, but doth not altogether take away the delightfulness of the knowledge. Tillotson. She was his care, his hope, and his delight, Most in his thought, and ever in his sight. Dryden. Poor insects, whereof some are bees, delighted with flowers, and their sweetness; others beetles, delighted Locke. with other kinds of viands. He heard, he took, and pouring down his throat, Delighted, swilled the large luxurious draught. The king, who loves the law, respects his bounds, And reigns content within them: him we serve Freely and with delight, who leaves us free. Cowper's Task. But you will say, it is reasonable to conclude that as all your predecessors, in this vale of misery and horror, have found themselves delightfully disappointed at last, so will you. Id. Private Correspondence. When the soft lute in sweet impassioned strains, of cruel nymphs or broken vows complains, As on the breeze the fine vibration floats, Darwin. |