A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1375-1586
[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Delytable, -abil(l, a. Also: -abile, -abyll(e, delitable, -abil(e, -abill, dylitabylle. [ME. delitable (c 1290), -abyl, OF. delitable.] Delectable, delightful.(a) 1375 Barb. i. 1.
Storys to rede ar delitabill, Suppos that thai be nocht bot fabill a1400 Legends of the Saints xvi. 174.
The word to say, The quhilk is delytabil ay a1400 Ib. 308.
With met [The] maste delytabile thu may get c1420 Wynt. i. 31.
For romans to rede is delytabylle c1420 Ib. ii. 728.
At that land wes profytabille, And tyll all levyng dylitabylle 1513 Doug. ix. iii. 61.
Nymphis … throw fomy fludis gray Scheryng with braid brestis delytabill 1533 Boece iii. i. 90 b.
Eder … extemyt na thing mare plesand nor delitabill than with hundis and rachis chais the dere (a1570-86 Dunb.) Maitland Folio MS xxxvii. 120.
Janus, god of entres delitabill(b) ?1438 Alex. ii. 6829.
Alsua is the cumpany Delytable, glaid and ioly 1456 Hay I. 85/35.
The thing suld be erest chosin, the quhilk is mare delytable 1456 Ib. II. 133/26.
Drynkis delytable and plesaunt a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1210.
Hell is a hole … Quhar licht is langorus and no thing delitable c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 120.
Ianus god of entree delytable
You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Delytable adj.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 5 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/delytable>
