Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Deliberative (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
(2) - Deliberative (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
(3) - Deliberative (a.) Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.

(1) - Deliberatively (adv.) In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.

(1) - Deliberator (n.) One who deliberates.

(1) - Delicacy (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.
(2) - Delicacy (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
(3) - Delicacy (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
(4) - Delicacy (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
(5) - Delicacy (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
(6) - Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
(7) - Delicacy (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.
(8) - Delicacy (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.