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

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

It seems to me that no association could be more propitious to the union of the utile dulci.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William

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

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