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Definition of Dicacity
1. n. Pertness; sauciness.
Definition of Dicacity
1. Noun. (obsolete) pertness; sauciness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dicacity
1. banter [n DICACITIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicacity
Literary usage of Dicacity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1845)
"This dicacity is unrivalled; it is a curious felicity of tongue — dolce parlar
e dolcemente inteso — and does speaker and listener equal good, ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... lyke the discolored mead', Spenser, Epithalamion, 51. dicacity, raillery,
sarcasm. Heywood, Dialogue 4, vol. vi, p. 185. ..."
3. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1871)
"In connection with those terms are many others whose boundaries we need not
determine, such as pleasantry, dicacity, urbanity, etc. ..."
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