oblectatio

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Who is not earnestly affected with a passionate speech, well penned, an elegant poem, or some pleasant bewitching discourse, like that of [3318] Heliodorus, ubi oblectatio quaedam placide fuit, cum hilaritate conjuncta?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007
Nor was the worthy Consul deficient in the love of the fine arts ( "hæc est, sitque diu, Senis optimi voluptas et oblectatio," says the compiler of the catalogue); having 11,000 most beautiful prints of subjects relating to the Bible, bound up in 92 atlas folio volumes.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811