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Webster 1913 Edition

Deletery

Del′e-ter-y

,
Adj.
[LL.
deleterius
: cf. F.
délétère
.]
Destructive; poisonous.
[Obs.]
“Deletery medicines.”
Hudibras.

Del′e-ter-y

,
Noun.
That which destroys.
[Obs.]
They [the Scriptures] are the only
deletery
of heresies.
Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Deletery

DELETERY

,
Adj.
Destructive; poisonous.

Definition 2024

deletery

deletery

English

Noun

deletery ‎(plural deleteries)

  1. (obsolete) That which destroys.
    They [the Scriptures] are the only deletery of heresies. — Jeremy Taylor.

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Adjective

deletery ‎(comparative more deletery, superlative most deletery)

  1. (obsolete) Destructive, poisonous.
    • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
      Nor engine, nor device polemic, / Disease, nor doctor epidemic, / Tho' stored with deletery med'cines, / Which whosoever took is dead since, / E'er sent so vast a colony / To both the under worlds as he.

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