Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of smearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A smearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
smearing .
Etymologies
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Latin delinere to smear. See liniment.
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The United Netherlands are indeed an aflem - blage of fotieiies; but this aflemblage conftitutes no new ant • ■ and, therefore, it does not correfpond with the full delinition of a confederate republic.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America: With that Constitution ... James Wilson, Thomas McKean 1792
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