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Delicat(e, n. Also: delicait, deliecat. [ME. delicat (c 1450), -ycate, f. Delicat(e,a. Cf. Diligat n.] A delicacy, dainty. 1533 Boece viii. ii. 249.
Britouns … war gevin to glutony and delicatis Ib. ix. vi. 299 b.
Thir feistis of fryant delicatis c1550 Rolland C. Venus iv. 641.
At hir tabill, … Ilk delicat but dowt was to thame drest Ib. 649.
The deir dancers with diuers delicait a1578 Pitsc. I. 336/23.
Thai had all maner of meittis, drinkis, deliecattis that was to be gottin 1603 Philotus xxi.
Ȝour cater he may cair for syne, Sum delicate agane ȝe dyne 1611-57 Mure Ps. cxli. 4.
Let not my hart … long ther delicats to taste