Definition of Delate

1. v. t. To carry; to convey.

2. v. i. To dilate.

Definition of Delate

1. Verb. (obsolete form of dilate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Delate

1. to accuse [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES] - See also: accuse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delate

delaines
delaminate
delaminated
delaminates
delaminating
delaminations
delapidate
delapidated
delapse
delapsed
delapses
delapsing
delapsion
delapsions
delate (current term)
delated
delates
delating
delation
delations
delative
delative case
delative cases
delator
delators
delavirdine
delaware
delay
delay differential equation

Literary usage of Delate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1821)
"Adjourned, soon after 12 o'clock, to Tuesday the 30th of May. Majority . 74 CHAPTER III. delate on tlu agricultural Petitions—Message from ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... and delate out of the hooks of armes, sua that their posterity may never hare place nor he able bereiter to bruik or joyse any honours, offices, ..."

3. Extracts from the Presbytery Book of Strathbogie by John Stuart (1843)
"... and if any did break out, to observe the ringleaders, and to delate them, if the said John did not come in and give obedience to discipline. ..."

4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1818)
"delate at the EIH July principles and character, the cruel disappointment of the dearest pa rental hopes ! The enormous magnitude of the evil should not ..."

5. Annual Register (1807)
"... a Sul-ject in delate f я l-otk Houses of Parliament.—Motion, iy Mr. mill-read, in the House of Commons, relative to the ..."

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