dele
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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deles
plural
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of dele
1695–1705; < Latin dēlē (2nd person singular imperative of dēlēre ), equivalent to dēl- destroy + -ē imperative ending
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George Mason, the Virginia dele gate to the 1787 Philadelphia convention who refused to endorse the Constitution because it failed to include a bill of rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Irwin, an old news paperman, seasoned in U. S. politics since the forgotten days when young Boies Penrose was a Libertarian, watched the dele gates file out of the Stadium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, for example, the 38 members of California's House dele gation decided to adjourn, come what may, at the end of this week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before him were fellow Virginians and assembled dele gates to the newly established Institute of Public Affairs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir, I shall tell you a part now, and the other dele to-morrow.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
We should thus get hwan he haueden þer ilk þing deled, when they had there distributed every thing.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
He deled a boll o' bear in firlottis fyve, Four for ye halie kirke, and ane for puir mennis wyvis.
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
So in l. 1736, for deled read deyled, as in l. 2098.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
The MS. reading deled should be deyled; cf. l. 2099. p.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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