delate

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See also: delaté and děláte

English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin delātus, perfect passive participle of deferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare defer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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delate (third-person singular simple present delates, present participle delating, simple past and past participle delated)

  1. 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.
  2. To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Conscience:
      when the crime is delated or notorious
  3. To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.
    Synonyms: accuse, denounce
    • 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.
  4. 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

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Verb

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delate (third-person singular simple present delates, present participle delating, simple past and past participle delated)

  1. Obsolete form of dilate.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

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Latin

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Participle

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dēlāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēlātus

Portuguese

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Verb

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delate

  1. inflection of delatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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delate (Cyrillic spelling делате)

  1. second-person plural present of delati

Spanish

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Verb

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delate

  1. inflection of delatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative