† delumbatev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To lame, maim, emasculate.
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1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 316 His cutting of Fathers when hee cites them for his aduantage; delumbating the positions of Protestants to make their doctrine odious.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Delumbate, to beate, weaken, to breake.
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? Pref. Tertullian, Basil, Chrysostome..we neither geld, nor delumbate for speaking too plaine: nor vse them like you.
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