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Latest revision as of 03:04, 29 August 2012 [edit] English deletery (plural deleteries) - (obsolete) That which destroys.
- They [the Scriptures] are the only deletery of heresies. — Jeremy Taylor.
[edit] Translations [edit] Adjective deletery (comparative more deletery, superlative most deletery) - (obsolete) Destructive, poisonous.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- Nor engine, nor device polemic, / Disease, nor doctor epidemic, / Tho' stored with deletery med'cines, / Which whosoever took is dead since, / E'er sent so vast a colony / To both the under worlds as he.
[edit] Translations Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. | |