Delectatio, ônis, f. g. Verbale. Cic.Delectation: pleasure.Gaudium & delectatio.Cic.Delectatio & iucunditas. Ci. Suauitas & delectatio. Cice. Voluptas & delectatio.Cic.Ars plena delectationis.Cic.Conuiuiorum delectatio.Cic. Sermonis delecta tio. Cic.Fabulæ delectationis habent quantum voles, id est, mulrum. Cicero. Delectationis causa aliquid agere.Cic.Studij delectationísque causa scribere aliquid.Cic.Popularis delectatio. Quint. Afferre delectationem alicui.Cic.To delight.Allicere delectatione. Quint. Duci delectatione audiendi.Cic.Habere magnam delectarionem. Author ad Herennium To be verie delectable.Ab delectatione negotijs impediri, & habere in occupatione delectationes, contraria.Cic.Magna delectatione & voluptate aliquem priuare. Cice. Amœnitas ad delectationem reuocat.Cic.Pleasantnesse of the place draweth a man to take delight in it: or to solace himselfe in it.Delectationi esse.Cic.To delight.
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dēlectātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a delighting, delight, pleasure, amusement (freq. and good prose): delectatio voluptas suavitate auditus animum deleniens, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 9: homo videndi et audiendi delectatione ducitur, id. Off. 1, 30; so, conviviorum, id. de Sen. 13, 45. More freq. without gen.: mira quaedam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio, Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 193; so, jucunditas delectatioque, id. ib. 3, 38, 155; with voluptas, id. Fam. 9, 24, 2: (doctrina et literae), quae secundis rebus delectationem modo habere, videbantur, nunc vero etiam salutem, id. ib. 6, 12fin.: gratiam et delectationem afferunt, Quint. 2, 13, 11; 9, 4, 9 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 34: in amicitia, Vulg. Sap. 8, 18.—In plural, Cic. Mur. 19, 39 al.—II. As medic. t. t., a straining, effort, tenesmus (late Lat.): frequens ventris egerendi, Cael. Aur. Tard. 4, 6, 88; 4, 3, 46.