Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To allay; dilute.
  • To carry; convey; transmit.
  • To carry on; conduct; manage.
  • To publish or spread abroad; make public.
  • To bring a charge against; accuse; inform against; denounce.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To dilate.
  • transitive verb To carry; to convey.
  • transitive verb To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
  • transitive verb To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
  • transitive verb To carry on; to conduct.

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  • verb Obsolete form of dilate.

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  • To delate means to accuse or denounce something and the cake delator was created as an instrument to further hatred and humiliation of cakes.

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  • If you answer the way I did you can bet on the inflate now, delate later model that would peak interest into the high teens or beyond.

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  • Any one out there brave enough to delate the lot and re-download as the need arises?

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  • ‘I intend to delate mysell to the Presbytery,’ said

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  • ‘I will delate you for a warlock to the Privy Council!’ said Sir John.

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  • Upon this information, Crawford was seized, and being examined, it appeared, that when the mob begun, as he was comeing down from the steeple, the mob took the keys from him; that he was that night in several corners, and did indeed delate severall persons whom he saw there, and immediately warrands were despatched, and it was found they had absconded and fled.

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  • ¿Será cuando el ocaso sea venerado y el fuego imaginario de tus entrañas hambrientas te delate las pausas y las corridas?

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  • In other words are there certain regular sorts of flourishing which we can see in this sphere which point to more than themselves, which delate, give away, point up, something about God? James Alison

    October 11, 2009