delate

present singular third person delates · participle present delating · participle past delated · past delated

1. archaicTo 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 by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

2. archaicTo report; to spread; to inform to make public.

   when the crime is delated or notorious

   1660, Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Conscience

3. archaicTo 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 1724, →OCLC

   Synonyms: accuse, denounce

4. archaicTo 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

present singular third person delates · participle present delating · participle past delated · past delated

1. obsoleteObsolete form of dilate.