delation

English

Etymology

From Latin delatio

Noun

delation (plural delations)

1. (obsolete) Conveyance.
   • 1858, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2^[1]:

     Some curious circumstances respecting delation, prison life, and autos da fe are here minutely recorded.]

   • 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire^[2]:

     Such public defiance might become Valentinian; but it could leave no room for the unworthy delation of the philosopher Maximus, which supposes some more private offence, (Zosimus, l. iv. p. 200, 201.)]

2. (law) accusation by an informer

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milman to this entry?)