delate

See also: delaté and děláte

English

Etymology 1

From Latin delātus, perfect passive participle of deferō (compare defer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈleɪt/, /dɪˈleɪt/

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Verb

delate (third-person singular simple present delates, present participle delating, simple past and past participle delated)

1. To carry; to convey.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.

2. To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Conscience:

     when the crime is delated or notorious

3. To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.

   Synonyms: accuse, denounce

   • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC:

     As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.

4. To carry on; to conduct.
   • 1586, William Warner, “The First. Chapter I.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 2:

     His vvarlike vvife Simeramis, her huſband being dead, / And ſonne in nonage, faining him ſhe ruled in his ſtéede: / Delating in a males attire the Empire nevve begonne: / The vvhich, his yeares admitting it, ſhe yealded to her ſonne.

Etymology 2

Verb

delate (third-person singular simple present delates, present participle delating, simple past and past participle delated)

1. Obsolete form of dilate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “delate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• elated

Latin

Participle

dēlāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlātus

Portuguese

Verb

delate

1. inflection of delatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

delate (Cyrillic spelling делате)

1. second-person plural present of delati

Spanish

Verb

delate

1. inflection of delatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative