▪ I. delate, v.
(dɪˈleɪt)
Also 6 Sc. delait, 6–7 dilate, 7 Sc. deleat.
[f. L. dēlāt-, ppl. stem of dēfer-re to bear or bring away or down, convey, deliver, report, indict, accuse, etc.; with 4, cf. med.L. dēlātāre to bring before a judge, indict, accuse, freq. of dēferre: see defer v.2
(The stem lāt- (*-tlāt-) belongs to a different root (*tlā-, Gr. τλά-ειν to bear), used to supply defective parts of ferre.)]
† 1. trans. To carry down or away, convey to a particular point; = defer v.2 1. Obs.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 15 The bone of the cheeke..hath a round hole..through which is transmitted a portion of the thyrd coniugation of Sinewes, delated to the Muscles of the nose. 1626 Bacon Sylva §209 To try exactly the time wherein Sound is Delated. |
† 2. To tender or offer for acceptance or adoption; = defer v.2 2. Obs.
| c 1555 Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 119 This good Bishop did..refuse the oath delated to him for the confirmation of the said divorce. 1875 Poste Gaius ii. Comm. (ed. 2) 224 On the incapacitation of the first heres institutus the inheritance would be instantaneously delated (offered for acceptance) to the heres substitutus or to the successor ab intestato. |
† 3. To hand down or over, transfer; to refer (a matter to any one). Obs.
| 1651 Howell Venice 201 Which charge and singular trust was delated unto them for their extraordinary prudence. a 1659 Osborn Characters, &c. Wks. (1673) 617 The Abstract of all Delated Dignities. a 1734 North Exam. ii. v. §24 (1740) 330 In a Nation that hath Established Laws, all Questions of Right and Wrong are delated to executive Power. 1858 Masson Milton I. 342 The King delates them [Instructions] to the two Archbishops; each Archbishop is to see to their execution by the bishops of his own province. |
4. To accuse, bring a charge against, impeach; to inform against; to denounce to a judicial tribunal, esp. that of the Scotch ecclesiastical courts.
| 1515 in Douglas's Wks. (1874) I. p. lxi, Comperit Master Gavin Douglas..and schew how..he was delatit to be ane evile man in diuers poyntis. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 414 Ane wikit limmare..quhilk was oftimes dilatit of adultry. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj., Treat. 132 Gif he quha is suspect, or delated to haue committed treason, is fugitiue. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 53 He wes delated to the Presbyterie. 1776 Johnson in Boswell, Case Jas. Thomson, If a minister be thus left at liberty to delate sinners from the pulpit..he may often blast the innocent. 1834 H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xix. (1857) 280 They deliberated together..on delating her as a witch before the presbytery of Tain. 1863 Sala Capt. Dangerous II. iii. 119 He will delate me to the English Resident at Brussels for a Jacobite spy. |
b. To report, inform of (an offence, crime, fault).
| 1582–8 Hist. James VI (1804) 107 He imediatlie come to Edinburgh, and thair delaitit his turpitude to the judge criminall. 1605 G. Powel Refut. Epist. Puritan-Papist 28 To punish the crimes delated vnto him. 1605 B. Jonson Volpone ii. vi, They may delate My slacknesse to my patron. 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain ii. ix. 208 Facts like these were, in most cases, delated to the Head of the house to which a young man belonged. |
5. To relate, report.
| a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iv. (1677) 185 He..delated the matter to the Queen. 1798 T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 246 This party division is necessary to induce each to watch and delate to the people the proceedings of the other. 1862 Sir H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve i. iii, Still of the art itself I spare to speak, Delating but, in quality of witness, The art's practitioners as I have known them. |
Hence deˈlated ppl. a., deˈlating vbl. n.
| 1599 Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον (1603) 100 The nature and by⁓past life of the dilated person. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. ii. iii. (1743) 366 When the delated father, i.e. the man whom the woman chargeth, appears, he is examined. 1820 Ess. Witchcraft 9 Their delating of one another, as it is called. |
▪ II. delate
obs. form of dilate, delete.