delignate

English edit

Etymology edit

de- +‎ lign- +‎ -ate

Verb edit

delignate (third-person singular simple present delignates, present participle delignating, simple past and past participle delignated)

(rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
  It moves me much his accusation of covetousness , dilapidating , or rather delignating , his bishopric
- 1893, Experiment Station Record, volume 4, page 430:
  The machine gave a smoothly delignated ribbon, with small percentage of woody waste, save in a few stalks […]
- 1919, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
  […] in concentrating the said delignated waste liquor and incorporating therewith quicklime to produce causticized substantially dry, powdered, lime organic material […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “delignate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

genitaled