deletery

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈliːtəɹi/
• Homophone: deletory

Noun

deletery (plural deleteries)

1. (obsolete) That which destroys.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:

     They [the Scriptures] are […] the only deletery of heresies.

Translations

that which destroys

• Russian: разруши́тель (ru) m (razrušítelʹ), па́губа (ru) f (páguba)

Adjective

deletery (comparative more deletery, superlative most deletery)

1. (obsolete) Destructive, poisonous, deleterious.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, 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.

Translations

destructive, poisonous

• Russian: ги́бельный (ru) m (gíbelʹnyj), па́губный (ru) m (págubnyj), губи́тельный (ru) m (gubítelʹnyj)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deletery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)