Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of scraping or shaving; a rasing or erasing; a scratch.
- noun Same as
erasure .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
- noun A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law
Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document;erasure , more generally. - noun
Obliteration ,destruction . - noun obsolete Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a
tonsure .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For like as winter rasure doth alway arase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman.
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A few summers ago, I was watching, with more than usual emotion, the rasure of a great edifice at a corner of Hanover Square.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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There were two reasons why this rasure especially affected me.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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The King sent to the Lords more peremptoryly, and they, with much grumbling, agreed to the rasure.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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When we began to talk of the Lords, the King sent for us alone, and recommended a rasure of all proceedings.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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Also the rasure or shaving which is on the overmost part of the head signifieth that between God and them ought to be nothing ne mean that should displease God, but their love should be in God without any letting and empeshment and should address in him their thoughts.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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There be three reasons why the head is bare, of which S. Denis assigneth the twain, and saith the rasure and cutting off of the hair signifieth pure life and clean without any arraying withoutforth; for like as hairs be naturally for to adorn the head, right so deform they the head when they be cut off by mockery or otherwise.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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Nov. 13, 1804, of a mortification in his leg, originating in the seemingly slight circumstance of a rasure against a chair, in the act of reaching a book from a shelf.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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But the images which memory presents are of a stubborn and untractable nature, the objects of remembrance have already existed, and left their signature behind them impressed upon the mind, so as to defy all attempts of rasure or of change.
The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I 1750
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For like as winter rasure doth alway arase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman.
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