deletery
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dəˈliːtəɹi/
- Homophone: deletory
Noun
deletery (plural deleteries)
- (obsolete) That which destroys.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], OCLC 1179528230:
- They [the Scriptures] are […] the only deletery of heresies.
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Translations
that which destroys
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Adjective
deletery (comparative more deletery, superlative most deletery)
- (obsolete) Destructive, poisonous, deleterious.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2
- Nor engine, nor device polemic, / Disease, nor doctor epidemic, / Tho' stored with deletery med'cines, / Which whosoever took is dead since, / E'er sent so vast a colony / To both the under worlds as he.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2
Translations
destructive, poisonous
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 deletery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)