delate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of delate
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic)To carry; to convey.
“Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.”
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verb
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(archaic)To carry; to convey.
“Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.”
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(archaic)To report; to spread; to inform to make public.
“when the crime is delated or notorious”
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(archaic)To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.
“As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.”
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(archaic)To carry on; to conduct or behave.
“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.”
- (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of dilate.
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Etymology
From Latin delātus, perfect passive participle of deferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of defer (Etymology 2). See also infer, collate and confer, relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
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