delectuses
delectuses is the plural of delectus.
Meaning of delectus
Noun
delectus (plural delectuses)
- An elementary reader (collection of passages) for learners of a language
- If she spoke with any keenness of interest to Mr. Casaubon, he heard her with an air of patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to him from his tender years, and sometimes mentioned curtly what ancient sects or personages had held similar ideas, as if there were too much...1871-2, George Eliot, Middlemarch, volume I, book IV, chapter 37
Questions about delectuses
- What is delectuses the plural of?
- Delectuses is the plural of delectus.
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