oblectation

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"History telleth of one Jacob Bunting, whose wife, several years younger than himself, played him certain sorry pranks with the young curate of the parish: the said Jacob, knowing nothing thereof, but furnishing great oblectation unto his neighbours, by boasting that he turned an excellent penny by selling poultry to his reverence above market prices, -- 'For

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  1. The act of pleasing highly; delight. The third in oblectation and fruition of pleasures and wanton pastimes. Northbrooke, Dicing (1577). (Nares.)

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  • Now they were getting somewhere A superrejuvenated colligation of oblectation," said Johnny Littlejohn, happily Eh?" —  132 - Death Had Yellow Eyes
  • However, having received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded--'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulce causa, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed under the influence of 'Liber Pater'; nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his 'Historia Naturalis.' —  Waverley
  • However, having received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded,--'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine GULAE CAUSA, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed under the influence of LIBER PATER; nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his HISTORIA NATURALIS. —  Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
  • "History telleth of one Jacob Bunting, whose wife, several years younger than himself, played him certain sorry pranks with the young curate of the parish: the said Jacob, knowing nothing thereof, but furnishing great oblectation unto his neighbours, by boasting that he turned an excellent penny by selling poultry to his reverence above market prices, -- 'For —  Eugene Aram — Volume 05
  • However, having received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded -- 'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulce causa, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of —  Waverley — Volume 1
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  1. from Old French oblectation, from Latin oblectatio(n-), a delighting, from oblectare, delight: see oblectate.
 

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