delate

From Latin delātus, perfect passive participle of deferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of defer (Etymology 2). See also infer, collate and confer, relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.

• IPA^(key): /dəˈleɪt/, /dɪˈleɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

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

1. To carry; to convey.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.

2. To report; to spread; to inform 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

   • a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:

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

4. To carry on; to conduct or behave.
   • 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.

• delation
• delator

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

1. Obsolete form of dilate.

• “delate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• elated

dēlāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlātus

delate

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

delate (Cyrillic spelling делате)

1. second-person plural present of delati

delate

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