Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affording pleasure or amusement; entertaining.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Affording solace.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Affording solace.

Etymologies

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Compare Old French solacieux.

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Examples

  • And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • I might, I comforted my languishing hart, vnmeasurably tormented, in putting of it in minde, of solacious and amorous hope: and with that, there was neuer a coale so neere put out, but it was presently renued and set on fire, with the company of the next.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Which when I had at large declared and ended my speeche, I began with great desire to frame my selfe to bee a pertaker of their solacious and magnificent pleasures.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Meadowe & smoth playne, most delightfull sounds, with sweete voyces and noyces of ioye and tryumphing: and to increase the glory, amorously stryuing and contending one with an other, vvith solacious and pleasant acts, accompanied with faire speeches and friendly aspects.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • I do still like these big pieces - I recently bought this, but I like the solacious ones also.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2008

  • I do still like these big pieces - I recently bought this, but I like the solacious ones also.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2008

  • I do still like these big pieces - I recently bought this, but I like the solacious ones also.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2008

  • _text reads “agreebale” _ their solacious and magnificent pleasures

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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