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▪ I. delete, v.|dɪˈliːt|
Also 5–6 delyte, 6–7 Sc. deleit, dilate, 7 deleet(e, deleate, 7 Sc. pa. tense and pa. pple. deletted, delait: see next.
[f. L. dēlēt-, ppl. stem of dēlēre to blot out, efface.]
†1. trans. To destroy, annihilate, abolish, eradicate, do away with. Obs.
(The first quot. is on various grounds uncertain.)
1495Barth. De P.R. (W. de W.) iv. iii. 82 Drinesse dystroyeth bodyes that haue soules, so he dyssoluyth and delyteth the kynde naturall spyrytes that ben of mayst smoke. 1534St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 218 Stryke thaym..till they be consumed, and ther generation clene radycat and delytit of this worlde. 1545Act 37 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §1 The Bishop of Rome..minding..to abolish, obscure and delete such Power. 1565Satir. Poems Reform. i. 344 Where no redresse in tyme cold dilate The extreme wrong that Rigor had tought. 1656Prynne Demurrer to Jews 69 Confederating..to murder and delete them. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 215 It doth perfectly deleate the ulcers which infest the throat. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 43 Though Carthage was deleted.
2. a. To strike or blot out, obliterate, erase, expunge (written or printed characters).
a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems I. 6 Sic tytillis in ȝour sanges deleit. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 522 His Majestie deletted that clause. a1657Balfour Ann. Scot. (1824–5) II. 76 Her proces [was] ordained to be delait out of the recordes. 1667Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 127 Here the corrector took out more than I deleted. 1862Beveridge Hist. India II. vi. iii. 641 The peerage would be granted if the censure were deleted. 1875F. Hall in Nation XXI. 360/2 Here, to make either sense or metre, the and must be deleted.
b. fig. To erase, expunge, ‘wipe out’.
1650Fuller Pisgah iii. x. 340 Studiously deleting the character of that Sacrament out of their bodies. 1785Reid Int. Powers iii. vii, So imprinted as not to be deleted by time. 1864Morn. Star 12 Jan., Kagosima has been deleted from the list of cities, and there is an end of it.
c. To remove (a gramophone record) from the catalogue and thus no longer offer it for sale.
1937Gramophone Oct. 190/1 H.M.V. are wisely persevering with their policy of announcing in advance which records they intend to delete from the Connoisseur's catalogue. 1949Ibid. Oct. 90/1 The first two Bartók quartets, long deleted, are now eagerly sought after by collectors. 1966Melody Maker 7 May 12/1 These justly famous tracks make a surprise reappearance because it was only in April that EMI deleted them.
3. pass. Cytology. Of a segment of a chromosome: to be lost from the chromosome. So deˈleted ppl. a. Cf. deletion 3.
1929Painter & Muller in Jrnl. Heredity XX. 296/1 Drawings of the chromosomes have been presented..the deleted X being indicated as ‘X—’. 1936Discovery Sept. 269/1 It is usually a section in the middle which disappears, or is ‘deleted’, the two ends joining up to make a shortened chromosome. 1957C. P. Swanson Cytol. & Cytogenetics x. 368 At anaphase, the deleted portion is usually freed and does not undergo movement to one or the other of the poles.
Hence deˈleting vbl. n., deletion.
1711Countrey-Man's Lett. to Curat 6 They had the popish missal and breviary with some few Deletings.
▪ II. † deˈlete, pa. pple. Obs.
Also 7 deleete, delate.
[ad. L. dēlēt-us blotted out, effaced, pa. pple. of dēlēre to delete.]
Deleted, abolished, destroyed.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 87 His brother's memory was delete and abolished among the Jews. 1642Declar. Lords & Com. to Gen. Ass. Ch. Scot. 13 An Obligation that cannot be delete. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1682/1 His Arms to be..delate out of the Books of Arms. |