Delibo, delíbas, pen. prod. delibâre. To taste a thing: to violate or hurte: to destroy or cortupt: to sacrifice: to diminish or take away by little and little.Contentus delibasse cibos. Claud. To haue touched, or euer tasted, &c.Artes delibare.Ouid.To taste or learne a little of any sciences: to take a smacke of them: to haue a light skil of.Delibare nouum honorem. Liuius. Firste to beare an office newly instituted: to be first appointed to that new office. Delibare, pro Decerpere.Cic.Flosculos orationis alterius delibare & carpere.Cic.To pike out and gather.Delibare benefaciendi materiam Plin. iun. Delibare de gloria alterius.Cic.To diminish or take some portion of an other mans glorie.De honestate delibare.Cic.To diminish honestie.De laude hominis quicquam delibare. Plancus Ciceroni. To diminish or take away part of. Delibare. Col. To hurt, bruse, or corrupte.Ne teneris delibent aliquid membrorum. Varro. That the yong ones do not hurt, &c.Delibare honestatem. Gell. To disteine, hurte, or diminishe honestie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-lībo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to take off, take away a little from any thing; of food, to taste (class.). I.Lit.: parvam delibet ab aequore partem, Lucr. 6, 622: aliquid membrorum, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 16: truncum, Col. 2, 2, 26: paululum carnis, Petr. 136, 1; cf. cenas (opp. edere), Favor. ap. Gell. 15, 8 fin.—II.Trop.A.To take, enjoy, pluck, gather: flos delibatus populi Suadaeque medulla, the picked flower of the people, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 15, 58: ut omni ex genere orationem aucuper et omnes undique flosculos carpam atque delibem,
cull
, Cic. Sest. 56: ex universa mente divina delibatos animos habere, id. de Sen. 21, 78: novum honorem,
to taste, enjoy
, Liv. 5, 12; cf.: honores parcissime, Plin. Pan. 54, 3: oscula, Verg. A. 12, 434; Phaedr. 4, 24, 8: artes, Ov. F. 1, 169: omnia narratione,
to touch upon
, Quint. 4, 2, 55; cf. Plin. Pan. 38; Suet. Aug. 94: delibor, I am ripe for plucking, i. e. about to die, Vulg. 2 Tim. 4, 6. —B.To take away, detract from, diminish: neque úlla Res animi pacem delibat, Lucr. 3, 24: de laude jejuni hominis delibare quicquam, Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 2: aliquid de honestate, id. Inv. 2, 58, 174: de gloria sua, id. ib. 2, 39, 115: de virginitatis integritate, Flor. 2, 6, 40; cf.: castitatem virginis, Val. Max. 9, 1, 2ext.: pudicitiam, Suet. Aug. 68: nec vitam ducendo demimus hilum Tempore de mortis nec delibare valemus, Lucr. 3, 1088 al.—Poet., transf.: Delibata deum per te tibi numina sancta Saepe oberunt,
disparaged
, Lucr. 6, 70; cf.: ille (Gracchus) nulla voce delibans insitam virtutem concidit tacitus, Auct. Her. 4, 55, 68.