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cancellation|kænsəˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. cancellātiōn-em, n. of action f. cancellāre: see cancel v. and -ation. So mod.F. cancellation. (In L. the n. had only the sense of fixing a boundary.)]
1. a. The action of the vb. cancel: the crossing out or obliteration of writing, the suppression of a leaf or sheet of a book as originally printed, the annulling of a legal document; a making void or rescinding of an obligation; the neutralizing of opposing equal numbers or amounts.
1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, xxvii, The said Chauncellour shall haue power..to make cancellacion of suche leases and letters patentes. 1628Coke On Litt. 308 b, By cancellation of the Deed. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 90 In spite of cancellations and interlineations, the original words can easily be distinguished. 1872J. A. H. Murray Compl. Scotl. Introd. 20 They entailed the cancellation of no fewer than 33 of the original leaves, and the substitution of 37 others. 1875Poste Gaius ii. (ed. 2) 247 The mere cancellation or obliteration of a will was an informal Revocation and left the will valid at civil law. 1878F. A. Walker Money i. iii. 68 In this cancellation of indebtedness.
b. The action or fact of cancelling a seat, room, place, etc., that has been reserved; a seat or room cancelled thus.
1953E. S. Gardner Case Green-Eyed Sister (1959) viii. 105 Luckily I managed to pick up a cancellation and came right through.
2. etymologically. The action of marking with cross lines lattice-wise. (nonce-use.)
1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 60 The cancellation of his back by stripes and scars. |