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Definition of delate in English: delateverb dɪˈleɪtdəˈleɪt [with object]archaic 1Report (an offence or crime) they may delate my slackness to my patron - 1.1 Inform against or denounce (someone)
they deliberated together on delating her as a witch Example sentencesExamples - It's fostered a climate of fear, with priests and even Bishops looking over their shoulders in case they get delated for perceived ‘errors’.
- He was delated to Rome for his writings on the laity and the shadow of suspicion was not lifted until he was made cardinal in 1878.
- Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether.
- However, when he published ‘On Consulting the Faithful, in Matters of Doctrine’, it was delated to Rome, and he was charged with subverting just authority.
Origin Late 15th century: from Latin delat- 'referred, carried away', from the verb deferre (see defer2). Definition of delate in US English: delateverbdəˈlātdəˈleɪt [with object]archaic 1Report (an offense or crime) they may delate my slackness to my patron - 1.1 Inform against or denounce (someone)
they deliberated together on delating her as a witch Example sentencesExamples - Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether.
- However, when he published ‘On Consulting the Faithful, in Matters of Doctrine’, it was delated to Rome, and he was charged with subverting just authority.
- It's fostered a climate of fear, with priests and even Bishops looking over their shoulders in case they get delated for perceived ‘errors’.
- He was delated to Rome for his writings on the laity and the shadow of suspicion was not lifted until he was made cardinal in 1878.
Origin Late 15th century: from Latin delat- ‘referred, carried away’, from the verb deferre (see defer). |