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Webster 1913 Edition


Delete

De-lete′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Deleted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Deleting
.]
[L.
deletus
, p. p. of
delere
to destroy. Cf. 1st
Dele
.]
To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott’s version, and have
deleted
eight.
Aytoun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Delete

DELETE

,
Verb.
T.
To blot out.