utile dulci

[ oo-ti-le dool-kee; English yoot-l-ee duhl-sahy, -see ]

Latin.

1. the useful with the pleasurable.

Example Sentences

According to the old Latin proverb "omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," he scores every point who mingles the useful with the beautiful, and certainly the Thirteenth Century workman succeeded in accomplishing the desideratum to an eminent degree.

From Project Gutenberg

Bacon never tires of quoting from the Roman poet the line— "Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," which, in an Elizabethan handwriting, may be seen in a contemporary volume thus rendered— "He of all others fittest is to write Which with some profit allso ioynes delight."

From Project Gutenberg

Who could with the same propriety take upon himself to be an instructor and legislator in the medical world, as he who had been taught to distinguish truth from falsehood, in the course of so extended an experience, protracted now to almost threescore years? to this may be added, that he has so contrived to blend the utile dulci, by embellishing his precepts with all the delicacy of polite expression, as to render them at the same time not less entertaining than instructive.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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

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