delate

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  1. To carry; convey; transmit. Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 209.
  2. To carry on; conduct; manage. His warlike wife Semiramis … Long ruled in his stead, Delating in a male′s attyre The empire new begonne. Warner, Albion′s England, i. 1.
  3. To publish or spread abroad; make public. When the crime is delated or notorious. Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, iii. 4.
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  1. = Spanish Portuguese delatar, accuse, from Middle Latin delatare (also contr. delare), accuse; from Latin delatus, past participle of deferre, bear, carry or bring down, bring, give, deliver, report, announce, also, as a legal term, with obj. nomen, name, or later with person as object, indict, impeach, accuse, denounce, from de, down, + farre = English bear: see defer.
  2. from Middle Latin delatare, erroneous form of Latin dilatare, dilate, extend, dilute: see dilate and delay.
 

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