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Webster 1913 Edition


Deliciously

De-li′cious-ly

,
adv.
Delightfully;
as, to feed
deliciously
; to be
deliciously
entertained.

Webster 1828 Edition


Deliciously

DELICIOUSLY

,
adv.
In a delicious manner; in a manner to please the taste or gratify the mind; sweetly; pleasantly; delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.

Definition 2024


deliciously

deliciously

English

Adverb

deliciously (comparative more deliciously, superlative most deliciously)

  1. In a delicious manner.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
      Chiming then to me, with exquisite consent, as I melted away, his oily balsamic injection, mixing deliciously with the sluices in flow from me, sheath'd and blunted all the stings of pleasure, it flung us into an extasy that extended us faint- ing, breathless, entranced.

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