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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
DA'INTY, a.
DA'INTY, n.
1913 Definition
Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in
anything.
[Obs.]
I ne told no deyntee of her love. Chaucer. That which is delicious or delicate; a
delicacy.
That precious nectar may the taste renew A term of fondness.
[Poetic] B.
Jonson.
Syn. -- Dainty, Delicacy. These words are here compared as denoting articles of food. The term delicacy as applied to a nice article of any kind, and hence to articles of food which are particularly attractive. Dainty is stronger, and denotes some exquisite article of cookery. A hotel may be provided with all the delicacies of the season, and its table richly covered with dainties. These delicacies [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, Rare; valuable; costly.
[Obs.]
Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer. * Hence the proverb "dainty maketh dearth," i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious. Delicious to the palate;
toothsome.
Dainty bits Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner,
or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
Those dainty limbs which nature lent I would be the girdle. Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard
to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Thew were a fine and dainty people. Bacon. And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.] Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all | ||||||||
Noah Says...
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
History of the United States :: 1832
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