deligent

English

Adjective

deligent (comparative more deligent, superlative most deligent)

1. Archaic spelling of diligent.
   • 1784, Thomas Vincent, An Explicatory Catechism: Or, an Explanation of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism Wherein All the Answers of the Assembly's Catechism are Taken Abroad in Under Questions and Answers; ..., page 201:

     The deligent use of all outward means […]

Anagrams

• deleting

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb dēligō (“pick off”).

Verb

dēligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēligō

Etymology 2

Form of the verb dēligō (“bind”).

Verb

dēligent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of dēligō

Scots

1. Alternative spelling of diligent
   • after 1513, William Dunbar, "The Maner of Passing to Confessioun", in Of Luve Erdly and Divine, in an 1834 collection edited by David Laing, The poems of William Dunbar, now first collected. With notes, and a memoir of his life. Volume first, page 225:

     Sen sic ane mychty king and lorde as he / To fast and pray was so obedient, / We synfull folk sulde be more deligent.

     I reid the, man, of thi transgressioun / With all thi hert that thou be penitent.

   • 1561 August, Frances Boitwall, letter, quoted in 1834, Mark Napier, Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston: His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms, page 76:

     […] and my Lordis facilite one the uther pairt; quhairfoir be ye deligent and waikryf; and gyf my Lord cumis nocht haistaly heir, bot is in purpois to remaine thair , labour ye, and caus for to labour, that my lord send about me to […]

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   • * 1573-1589, Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh: a.d. 1573-1589 (published 1875), page 137:

     […] ordanis the prouest baillies and counsale of the said burgh to mak deligent serche and inquisitioun gyf thair be ony within thair jurisdictioun that ar apperand to attempt or to be auctouris of seditioun tymult or rebellioun within […]