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Are not _delicioe_, _delicatus_, more probably from _deligere_ than from _delicere_?
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_delicere_ is actually used by one of the earlier Latin poets for to delight.
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_deligere_ rather than _delicere_; since, if my memory does not deceive me, the former is as often, if not oftener, used by good writers to express to drive away, to upset, to remove from, or detach -- as to select or choose -- which is the only meaning the word has akin to _deliciæ_; whereas
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