delate
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin delātus, perfect passive participle of deferō (compare defer).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /dəˈleɪt/, /dɪˈleɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editdelate (third-person singular simple present delates, present participle delating, simple past and past participle delated)
- To carry; to convey.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.
- To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Conscience:
- when the crime is delated or notorious
- To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.
- a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
- As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.
- To carry on; to conduct.
- 1586, William Warner, “The First. Chapter I.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 2:
- His vvarlike vvife Simeramis, her huſband being dead, / And ſonne in nonage, faining him ſhe ruled in his ſtéede: / Delating in a males attire the Empire nevve begonne: / The vvhich, his yeares admitting it, ſhe yealded to her ſonne.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editdelate (third-person singular simple present delates, present participle delating, simple past and past participle delated)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “delate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editLatin
editParticiple
editdēlāte
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editdelate
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Serbo-Croatian
editVerb
editdelate (Cyrillic spelling делате)
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editVerb
editdelate
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