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Dele [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dele [Imperative singular] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /.

Dele [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.

2. To deal; to divide; to distribute.

Deleble [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That can be blotted out.

Deleble [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being blotted out or erased.

Delectable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Highly pleasing; delightful.

Delectableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Delightfulness.

Delectably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Delightfully.

Delectate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To delight; to charm.

Delectation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Great pleasure; delight.

Delectation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Great pleasure; delight.

Delectus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.

Deled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Delegacy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A number of persons delegated.

Delegacy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

2. A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

Delegate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Deputed; sent to act for or represent another; as a delegate judge.

Delegate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A person appointed and sent by another with powers to transact business as his representative; a deputy; a commissioner; a vicar. In the United States, a person elected or appointed to represent a state or a district, in the Congress, or in a Convention for forming or altering a constitution.

2. In Great Britain, a commissioner appointed by the king, under the great seal, to hear and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical court. Hence the Court of Delegates is the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. It is used also for the court of appeals from that of the admiralty.

3. A layman appointed to attend an ecclesiastical council.

Delegate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To send away; appropriately, to send on an embassy; to send with power to transact business, as a representative. The President delegated three commissioners to the court of St. Cloud.

2. To entrust; to commit; to deliver to anothers care and exercise; as, to delegate authority or power to an envoy, representative or judge.

Delegate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

Delegate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

2. One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

3. One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.

Delegate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

2. To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

Delegated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Deputed; sent with a trust or commission to act for another; appointed a judge; committed, as authority.

Delegated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Delegating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Deputing; sending with a commission to act for another; appointing; committing; entrusting.

Delegating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Delegation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sending away; the act of putting in commission, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate.

2. The duties of religion cannot be performed by delegation

3. Th persons deputed to act for another, or for others. Thus, the representatives of Massachusetts in Congress are called the delegation or whole delegation

4. In the civil law, the assignment of a debt to another, as when a debtor appoints his debtor to answer to the creditor in his place.

Delegation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

2. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.

3. A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.

Delegatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Holding a delegated position.

Deleing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Delenda [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Things to be erased or blotted out.

Delenifical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Assuaging pain.

Delete [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To blot out.

Delete [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

Deleted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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