▪ I. † ˈcancellate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. L. cancellāt- ppl. stem of cancellā-re to cancel: see -ate3.]
trans. a. To inclose, rail in; b. to strike out, cancel. Hence ˈcancellating vbl. n.
| 1647 Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery i. (1686) 16 He was forced to cancellate or blot out many sayings of St. Ambrose. 1649 ― Gt. Exemp. xix. §12 (1703) 375 This act was like to cancellating and a circumvallation of the holy mysteries. |
▪ II. cancellate, a.
(ˈkænsələt)
[ad. L. cancellātus pa. pple. of cancellāre to cancel.]
Marked with cross lines like lattice-work; reticulated.
| 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The belly, in solipedes is rough and hard..in some mordaceous cancellate. 1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 362 Cancellate, when the parenchyma is wholly absent, and the veins alone remain, anastomosing and forming a kind of net-work. 1880 Gray Bot. Text-bk. 401 Cancellate, latticed. |