释义 |
‖ delenda, n. pl.|dɪˈlɛndə| [L., pl. of dēlēndum (a thing) to be blotted out, gerundive of dēlēre to delete.] Things to be deleted. (In early quot. with additional plural -s.)
1645Marquis of Worcester in Bibl. Regia (1659) 71, I beseech your Majesty to consider the streiks that are drawn over the Divine writ as so many delendies [quoted in C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 6 (1651) as delenda's] by such bold hands as these. |