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Webster 1913 Edition
Exquisite
Ex′qui-site
,Adj.
1.
Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction;
as,
. exquisite
workmanshipPlate of rare device, and jewels
Of reach and
Of reach and
exquisite
form. Shakespeare
I have no
exquisite
reason for ’t, but I have reason good enough. Shakespeare
2.
Exceeding; extreme; keen; – used in a bad or a good sense;
as,
. exquisite
pain or pleasure3.
Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious;
as,
. exquisite
judgment, taste, or discernment
Syn. – Nice; delicate; exact; refined; choice; rare; matchless; consummate; perfect.
Ex′qui-site
,Noun.
One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exquisite
EX'QUISITE
,Adj.
1.
Nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as a vase of exquisite workmanship.2.
Nice; accurate; capable of nice perception; as exquisite sensibility.3.
Nice; accurate; capable of nice discrimination; as exquisite judgment, taste or discernment.4.
Being in the highest degree; extreme; as, to relish pleasure in an exquisite degree. So we say, exquisite pleasure or pain.The most exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an approving conscience.
5.
Very sensibly felt; as a painful and exquisite impression on the nerves.Definition 2024
exquisite
exquisite
English
Adjective
exquisite (comparative more exquisite, superlative most exquisite)
- Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
- Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
- (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- exquisite pain or pleasure
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
- Thomas Fuller (1606-1661)
- his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
Synonyms
Translations
especially fine
|
obsolete: carefully adjusted
recherché
exceeding, extreme
of delicate perception
Noun
exquisite (plural exquisites)
- (rare) Fop, dandy. [from early 20th c.]
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
- So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
- 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.
- So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
Translations
fop, dandy — see fop
Latin
Participle
exquīsīte
- vocative masculine singular of exquīsītus
References
- exquisite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers