utile dulci

American  

[oo-ti-le dool-kee, yoot-l-ee duhl-sahy, -see] / ˈu tɪ lɛ ˈdʊl ki, ˈyut l i ˈdʌl saɪ, -si /

Latin.

1. the useful with the pleasurable.

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Example Sentences

The gardens of the Count Durazzo at Nervi, exhibit as rich a mixture of the utile dulci, as I ever saw.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

His fundamental basis is the stock Horatian "omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," or as Harington paraphrases, "for in verse is both goodness and sweetness, Rubarb and Sugarcandie, the pleasant and the profitable."

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci was not only an irrefragable axiom because a Latin poet had said it, but it exactly met the case in point.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

From the titles of some of them, and from his motto, "Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," it is evident that they were intended to be humorous.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

I don't doubt that we've made up our minds to make away with each other; but why not laugh too and unite utile dulci?

From Fathers and Children by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich