delicated

English

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of delicate with -ed.

Adjective

delicated (comparative more delicated, superlative most delicated)

1. (rare) Delicate.
   • 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act II:

     O mine ſeete, deerſt, kindeſt, mine louing, O mine towſand, ten towſand, delicated, petty ſeet art

   • 1673, [Marie-Catherine de Villedieu], anonymous translator, “The Loves of Great Men. Cato of Vtica.”, in The Amours of Solon. Socrates. Julius Cæsar. Cato of Vtica. D’ Andelot. Bussy D’ Amboyse. […], London: […] H. Herringman, and John Starkey, […], page 120:

     Facility generally diſguſts delicated nice Minds, but it produces a contrary effect, when a Lover regards it as a miracle of Love.

   • 1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, part II, stanza XX, page 125:

     These delicated muslins rather seem / Than be, you think?

   • 1990 August 15, James Schuyler, edited by Nathan Kernan, The Diary of James Schuyler, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 274:

     The way the single, circular petal was folded in the bud, like a rolled umbrella, shows in lines pressed finely into its delicated flesh, as thin as fine silk, but so much more perishable.