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† deletery, a. Obs.|ˈdɛlɪtərɪ|
Also erron. -ory, -ary.
[a. med.L. dēlētēri-us (Du Cange), a. Gr. δηλητήριος deleterious. In F. délétère (médicament délétère, Joubert, 16th c.). In the 17th c. often erroneously viewed as a derivative of L. dēlēre, dēlētum, to blot out, efface, destroy, and consequently both spelt -ory, and used in the sense ‘effacing, blotting out’: cf. deletory.
By Butler stressed ˈdeletery; but generally perhaps deˈletery.]
A. adj. Deleterious, noxious, poisonous.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 101 [Venemous hearbes] which by reason of their deletory coldnesse bring destruction unto Creatures, as Henbane, Mandrake, Napellus. 1638A. Read Chirurg. xii. 89 The subjects wherein this deletery propertie is lodged. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 10 A certain deletary and poysonous quality. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 317 Though stor'd with Deletery Med'cines (Which whosoever took is Dead since). 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 196 A Patient..died frantick, as if he had taken a deletery Medicine.
B.
1. A deleterious or noxious drug; a poison. Also fig.
1638A. Read Chirurg. xii. 88 You may aske by what meanes these poisons and deleteries doe kill. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. (1703) 407 Health and pleasure, deletery and cordial. 1651–3― Serm. for Year i. xvii. 223 [To] destroy Charity..with the same general venom and deletery as apostacy destroyes faith.
2. A drug that destroys or counteracts the effect of anything noxious, as a poison; an antidote.
b. fig. Anything that destroys, or counteracts the poison of, sin or evil; an antidote to or for evil.
¶ In this sense evidently associated with L. dēlēre, dēlētum, and so used as = ‘destroyer, effacer, wiper out’ (of evil): cf. deletory n.
1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 5 Episcopacy is the best deletery in the world for Schisme. 1649― Apol. Liturgy Pref. §34 Inserted as Antidotes, and deleteries to the worst of Heresies. 1649― Gt. Exemp. ii. xii. xi. i. §9 A proper deletery of his disgrace, and purgative of the calumny. 1660― Duct. Dubit. i. i. rule ii. §23 Intended to be deleteries of the sin and instruments of repentance. ― Ibid. i. iii, My thinking that mercury is not poison, nor hellebore purgative, cannot make an antidote or deletery against them. |