deletery
English
Etymology
From New Latin dēlētērius, from Ancient Greek δηλητήρῐος (dēlētḗrĭos).[1] Doublet of deleterious.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dəˈliːtəɹi/
- Homophone: deletory
Noun
deletery (plural deleteries)
- (obsolete) destroyer.
- 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:
- They [the Scriptures] are […] the only deletery of heresies.
Translations
that which destroys
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Adjective
deletery (comparative more deletery, superlative most deletery)
- (obsolete) Destructive, poisonous
- Synonym: 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.
- 1880, Samuel G. Drake, The Aboriginal Races of North America:
- deletery effects of civilization
Translations
destructive, poisonous
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References
- ^ “deletery, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
-“deletery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.