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delates

delates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of delate.

Meaning of delate

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To carry; to convey.
    • Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.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...
  2. (archaic) To report; to spread; to inform to make public.
    • when the crime is delated or notorious1660, Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Conscience
  3. (archaic) To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.
    • As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.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...
    Synonyms:
    accuse, denounce
  4. (archaic) To carry on; to conduct or behave.
    • 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.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

Questions about delates

What is delates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Delates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of delate.

Words near delates in the dictionary

  1. Delasanchas
  2. Delashmit
  3. DeLashmutt
  4. delate
  5. delated
  6. delates
  7. delating
  8. delatinisation
  9. delatinization
  10. delation
  11. delations

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