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utile dulci
[ oo-ti-le dool-kee; English yoot-l-ee duhl-sahy, -see ]
/ ˈu tɪ lɛ ˈdʊl ki; English ˈyut l i ˈdʌl saɪ, -si /
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Latin.
the useful with the pleasurable.
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How to use utile dulci in a sentence
A thoroughgoing Horatian, he cannot forbear to quote at length and comment upon the "miscere utile dulci," of his master.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance|Donald Lemen ClarkIt seems to me that no association could be more propitious to the union of the utile dulci.
Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time|Franois Pierre Guillaume GuizotThe masthead for Nos. 53-91 (exactly 3/4 of the year) reads Utile Dulci.
The New-York Weekly Magazine|VariousI 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?
Fathers and Children|Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev