Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Things to be erased or blotted out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Things to be erased or blotted out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun things to be deleted or removed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Art collegia delenda est - That's your term Donald.
March 2009 2009
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Those efforts mostly failed and the GOP retained its majority, but the unions feel about Mr. Walker the way Cato the Elder felt about Carthage: Walker delenda est, Scott Walker must be destroyed.
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Hope you are still alive, now get back to to work, this is a big year, time to get to it. art collegia delenda est
Happy Holidays 2009
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Glad you are having fun and researching, now get back to work, and I mean blogging too! art collegia delenda est
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Booth School of Business delenda est. democraticcore says:
Matthew Yglesias » “Taking Money From One Place and Giving it To Another Place” 2010
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Told you you shouldnt have. have a nice day. art collegia delenda est
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Yes, passive periphrastics were familiar when I got to them in Latin (Carthago delenda est) all because of Mortimer.
Rumpole at rest 2009
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Didn't he know about the Roman battle cry "Carthago delenda est", which called for the city to be razed and the ground sown with salt?
The big picture: on the set of Roman Polanski's movie Pirates, 1985 2010
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What DO they teach in art schools these days? art collegia delenda est et tu, capitalism
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That said, I wish Obama had just sucked it up and voted for Roberts and that we could stick to the ‘clearly competent’ standard of review of nominees.insert here delenda estQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan and the Cult of Personality 2010
whichbe commented on the word delenda
Things to be deleted or destroyed. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008
seanahan commented on the word delenda
Carthage.
May 27, 2008