Bible dictionaries

Deliciously

What Bible dictionaries say about “Deliciously”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Deliciously - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DELICIOUSLY, adv. In a delicious manner; in a manner to please the taste or gratify the mind; sweetly; pleasantly; delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

de-lish'-us-li (streniao "to live hard or wantonly"): "She (Babylon) .... lived deliciously" (Re 18:7,9 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "wantonly," the Revised Version, margin "luxuriously").

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915