Bible Dictionary: Delicious

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.

2. (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.

Library

Treats of Several Ways Whereby Our Lord Quickens the Soul; There ...
... It is conscious of having received a delicious wound but cannot discover how, nor
who gave it, yet recognizes it as a most precious grace and hopes the hurt ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter ii treats of several.htm

Of the Loving Recollection of the Soul in Contemplation.
... prepared for it:"so our Saviour,"pronouncing some secret word of his love, or pouring
out the odour of the wine of his dilection, more delicious than honey ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter vii of the loving.htm

The Right to Feel Superior
... There are the most delicious things! ... Though I must admit that we usually give up
halfway"the food is so delicious and we're so hungry we have to. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 10 the right to.htm

How Sacred Love Contains the Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost ...
... Now charity is called a fruit inasmuch as it delights us, and inasmuch as we enjoy
its delicious sweetness, the sweetness of a true apple of paradise, gathered ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xix how sacred love.htm

Of Rapture, and of the First Species of It.
... And although the attractions by which God draws us be admirably pleasing, sweet
and delicious, yet on account of the force which the divine beauty and goodness ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iv of rapture and.htm

Begins to Treat of the Union of the Soul with God in Prayer. How ...
... This is a delicious death, for the soul is deprived of the faculties it exercised
while in the body: [159] delicious because, (although not really the case ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter i begins to treat.htm

How the Desire to Praise God Makes us Aspire to Heaven.
... the cage of his body, in which he cannot at will sing the benedictions of his eternal
love, knows that he could better trill and practise his delicious song if ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter x how the desire.htm

The Story of one Furlough (1908-1910)
... The children complained that they were too hard to eat, and begged me to buy them
some "Snows""very expensive, but delicious apples for eating. ...
/.../goforth/how i know god answers prayer/vii the story of one.htm

Watkinson -- the Transfigured Sackcloth
... But will this rhapsody bear thinking about? Is death "delicate, lovely
and soothing," "delicious," coming to us with "serenades"? ...
/.../the worlds great sermons volume 8/watkinson the transfigured sackcloth.htm

The Lord's Supper
... has in Christ. Eating is grateful and pleasing to the palate; so feeding
on Christ by a lively faith is delicious. Nullus animae ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/4 5 the lords supper.htm

Thesaurus

Delicious (3 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Delicious (3 Occurrences). Proverbs 9:17 Drink taken without
right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. (See NIV). ...
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Nectar (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A sweet liquid secreted by a flower; a sweet,
delicious drink; a sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey. ...
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Dainty (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. 3. (n.) A term of
fondness. ... 5. (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome. ...
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Lapwing (2 Occurrences)
... see). The lapwing is a plover, and its flesh and eggs are delicious food.
Multi-Version Concordance Lapwing (2 Occurrences). Leviticus ...
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Grateful (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as,
a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep. ...
/g/grateful.htm - 7k

Fowl (73 Occurrences)
... The young of the ostrich was delicious food, and no doubt when Solomon's ships brought
peafowl they also brought word that they were a delicacy for a king's ...
/f/fowl.htm - 36k

Fare (13 Occurrences)
... 9. (v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. 10. (v.) Food; provisions
for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. 11. ...
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Rephidim (5 Occurrences)
... Palmer speaks of passing through the palm grove as a "most delightful" walk; "the
tall, graceful trees afforded a delicious shade, fresh water ran at our feet ...
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Dish (54 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold
dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. A dish fit for the gods. ...
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Delicates (1 Occurrence)

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Bible Concordance

Delicious (3 Occurrences)

Proverbs 9:17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 18:8 The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 26:22 The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Delicious

Related Terms

Nectar (2 Occurrences)

Dainty (7 Occurrences)

Lapwing (2 Occurrences)

Grateful (4 Occurrences)

Fowl (73 Occurrences)

Fare (13 Occurrences)

Rephidim (5 Occurrences)

Dish (54 Occurrences)

Delicates (1 Occurrence)