KJV Dictionary Definition: delicate

delicate

DELICATE, a. L. Connected with delight; to delight.

1. Of a fine texture; fine; soft; smooth; clear, or fair; as a delicate skin.

2. Nice; pleasing to the taste; of an agreeable flavor; as delicate food; a delicate dish.

3. Nice in perception of what is agreeable; dainty; as a delicate taste; and figuratively, nice and discriminating in beauty and deformity.

4. Nice; accurate; fine; soft to the eye; as a delicate color.

5. Nice in forms; regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by condescension and attention to the wishes and feelings of others; as delicate behavior or manners; a delicate address.

delicately

DELICATELY, adv.

1. In a delicate manner; with nice regard to propriety and the feelings of others.

2. Daintily; luxuriously.

They that live delicately are in kings courts. Luke 7.

3. With soft elegance; as an expression delicately turned.

4. Tenderly; with indulgence in ease, elegance and luxury. Prov. 29.

delicateness

DELICATENESS, n. The state of being delicate; tenderness; softness; effeminacy. Deut. 28.