an appellation given to a kind or branch of rhetoric, employed in proving a thing, or convincing an assembly thereof, in order to persuade them to put it in execution.

To have a DELIBERATIVE voice in the assembly, is when a person has a right to give his advice and his vote therein. In councils, the bishops have deliberative. Deliherative voices; those beneath them have only consultative voices.

DELLICT, in Scots Law, signifies such small offences or breaches of the peace as are punishable only by fine or short imprisonment.