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admiralty court : so called because the judges were dele- 
gated or appointed by the crown under the great seal. 
This court is now abolished, and its powers and functions 
are transferred to the sovereign in council. Also called 
Commission of Delegates. House Of Delegates, in the 
United States : (a) The lower house of the General Assem- 
bly in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Formerly 
called House of Burgestes. (b) The lower house of the 
General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
(in full, House of Clerical and Lay Delegates). 
sent with authority to act for another; ap- 
pointed. 
Delegated Spirits comfort fetch 
To her from height* -- 
please or charm, as the senses ; render delecta- 
ble ; delight. 
delectation (de-lek-ta'shqn), n. [= F. delecta- 
tion = Sp. delegation = Pg. deleitaytto = It. de- 
lettazione, < L. delectatio(n-), < delectarc, please, 
delight: see delectate.'] Great pleasure, par- 
ticularly of the senses ; delight. 
" I ensure you, Master Raphael "(quoth I)," 1 took great _ ^ _ _ ^ 
delectation in hearing you : all things that you said were H e i eea f e rl (del'e-ca-ted). . . 1. Deputed; 
spoken so wittily and so pleasantly." .,, \_ti_I_HI_ A _ 5*. *- ......fi,,^. . -r_ 
Sir T. J/o<v, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, 
and to delectation. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 142. 
At the very moment, however, of these delectations, a 
meeting was held at Brussels of men whose minds were 
occupied with sterner stuff than sugar-work. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 492. 
delectus persons (de-lek'tus per-so'ne). [L., 
the choice of a person : delectus, a choice, < 
deligere, pp. delectus, choose out, select, < de, 
from, + legere, pick, choose ; persona, gen. of 
persona, a person : see person.~\ In law, the 
choice or selection, either express or implied, 
of a particular individual, by reason of some 
personal qualification; particularly, the right 
to choose partners in business; the regulation 
which prevents a new partner from being ad- 
mitted into a firm against the will of any mem- 
ber of it. 
delegacyt (del'e-ga-si), n. [< delegate) + -cy.] 
1. The act of delegating, or the state of being 
delegated. 
By way of delegacy or grand commission. 
Raleigh, Hist. World, v. 2. 
2. A number of persons delegated ; a delega- of a delegate, 
tion. 
deleterious.'] To blot out; expunge; erase. 
I stand ready with a pencil in one hand and a sponge 
in the other, to add, alter, insert, expunge, enlarge, and 
delete, according to better information. 
Fuller, General Worthies, xxv. 
I have . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear 
in Sir Walter Scott's version, and deleted eight. 
W. E. Aytoun. 
It was not till 1879 that they [the German socialists] 
were provoked by the persecutions to which they were 
subjected by the German Government, to delete from their 
statutes the qualification of seeking their ends by legal 
means. Roe, Contemp. Socialism, p. 283. 
2. Intrusted; committed; held by substitution. 
Whose delegated cruelty surpasses 
The worst acts of one energetic master. 
r.in "a . Sardanapalus, 1. 2. 
Faithfulness to conviction and all delegated trust. 
Theodore Parker, Historic Americans. 
The system of provinces, of dependencies, of territories 
which cannot be brought into the general system of gov- 
ernment, which need to be administered by some special 
delegated power, seems to me to be vicious in idea. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 349. 
< Gr. 6rff.rrfi]nto^, noxious, deleterious, < < 
a destroyer, < 6tifaia6at, hurt, damage, spoil, 
waste.] 1. Having the quality of destroying 
life ; noxious ; poisonous : as, a deleterious plant. 
In some places, those plants which are entirely poison- 
ous at home lose their deleterious quality by being carried 
abroad. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xc. 
2. Hurtful in character or quality; injurious; 
pernicious; mischievous; unwholesome: as, a 
deleterious practice ; deleterious food. 
'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, 
For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. 
Byron, Don Juan, iv. 52. 
Probably no single influence has had so deleterimui an 
effect upon the physique of the rapidly civilized peoples 
as clothing. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 235. 
Before any suit begin, the plaintiffe shall have his com- 
plaint approved by a set delegacy to that purpose. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader. 
delegate (del'e-gat), . t.; pret. and pp. dele- 
gated, ppr. delegating. [< L. delegatus, pp. of 
delegare (> It. delegare = Sp. Pg. delegar = 
F. dtleguer), send, assign, depute, appoint, < 
de, from, + legare, send, deputej appoint: see 
legate.] 1. To depute; appropriately, to send 
with power to transact business as a represen- 
tative: as, he was delegated to the convention. 
2. To intrust ; commit ; deliver to another's 
care and management: as, to delegate author- 
ity or power to a representative. 
We can pretend to no further jurisdiction than what 
he has delegated to us. Decay of Christian Piety. 
Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and 
decorations of social life. Emerson, Conduct of Life. 
The Iliad shows that it was usual for a Greek king to 
delegate to his heir the duty of commanding his troops. 
H. Spencer, Prill, of Sociol., 518. 
delegate (del'e-gat), a. and n. [= F. &eUgu& 
= Sp. Pg. delegado = It. delegato, < L. delegatus, 
pp.: see the verb.] I. a. Deputed; commis- 
sioned or sent to act for or represent another. 
Delegated jurisdiction, in Scots law, jurisdiction which 
is communicated by a judge to another who acts in his 
name, called a depute or deputy : contradistinguished from 
proper jurisdiction. 
delegation (del-e-ga'shon), n. [= P. delega- 
tion = Sp. delegation = Pg. delegacSo = It. dele- 
gazione,< L. delegatio(n-), < delegare, depute: deleteriously(<lel-e-te ri-us-li), adv. In a dele- 
see delegate.] 1. A sending or deputing; the terious manner; injuriously, 
act of putting in commission, or investing with deletenousness (del - e - te II-UB -nes), n. The 
authority to act for another; the appointment quality or state of being deleterious or hurt- 
deleteryt (del'e-ter-i), a. and n. [< ML. *dele- 
terius, < Gr. (JijSlynJptof, deleterious : see delete- 
rious.] L a. Destructive; poisonous. 
Doctor epidemick, 
. . . stor'd with deletery med'cines, 
(Which whosoever took is dead since). 
S. Butler, Hudibras, i. 2. 
n. [< ML. deleterium, < Gr. oijtyTqpiov (BO. 
i, a poison, neut. of (nfKirrriP 10 ^ ' see I.] 
Anything that destroys; a destructive agent. 
Such arguments in general, and remedies in particular, 
which are apt to become deleteries to the sin, and to abate 
the temptation. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 110. 
n. [< L. deletio(n-), < de- 
The duties of religion cannot be performed by delegation. 
S. Miller. 
These only held their power by delegation from the peo- 
ple. Brougham. 
But of all the experiments in delegation to which the 
spiritual jurisdiction of the English Crown has been sub- 
jected, the most unhappy was the first the Vicar-Gen- 
eralship of Thomas Crumwel. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., Iv. 
2. A person or body of persons deputed to act 
for another or for others ; specifically, in the 
United States, the whole body of men who 
represent a single district or State in a repre- 
II. 
. annually by 
emperor to legislate on matters pertaining to 
the whole empire. One delegation Is chosen by the 
Austrian Reichsrath, the other by the Hungarian Reichs- 
tag, and each consists of sixty members. 
4. In civil law, the act by which a debtor, in 
ing, blotting out, or erasing. 2. An erasure; 
a word or passage deleted. 
Some deletions, found necessary in consequence of the 
unexpected length to which the article extended, have 
been restored. Sir W. Hamilton. 
order to be freed from his debt, offers in his 3. A blotting out, as of an object; oblitera- 
stead to the creditor another person, who binds 
himself for the debt. The delegation is said to be 
perfect when the delegating debtor is discharged by his 
creditor, imperfect when the creditor retains his rights 
against his original debtor. 
5. In French usage, a share certificate. 6. In 
banking, an informal and non-negotiable letter 
employed by bankers for the transfer of a debt 
or credit. 
[< delegate + 
Princes in judgment, and their delegate judges, must 
judge the causes of all persons uprightly and impartially. 
Jer. Taylor. 
H. n. 1. A person appointed and sent by ^^^^^(dere^-t^-ri), a 
another or by others, with power to transact 
business as his or their representative ; a dep- 
uty ; a commissioner ; an attorney. 
Legates and delegates with powers from hell. 
Cowper, Expostulation. 
tion; suppression; extinction. 
The great extermination of the Jewish nation, and their 
total deletion from being God's people, was foretold by 
Christ. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 827. 
We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish 
deportation or deletion of the Moors. 
Je/erson, Autobiog. , p. 40. 
The better the man and the nobler his purposes, the 
more will he be tempted to regret the extinction of his 
powers and the deletion of his personality. 
R. L. Stevenson, Ordered South. 
Holding a delegated or dependent po- deletitioug ( d el.e-tish ; us), a. [< LL. deletitius, 
sitlon ' prop, deleticius, t. L. delere, erase: see delete.} 
Some politique delegatory Scipio ... they would single f^om wn ich anything has been or may be 
forth, if it might bee, whom they might depose when they , ,. , 
list, if he should fcegin to tyranize. erased : applied to paper. 
Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Hart. Misc., VI. 170). deletive (de-le'tiv), a. [< delete + -ive.\ Per- 
taining to deletion ; deleting or erasing. 
._'_"_ ." "~ ; ' -ry-~\ 
That which erases or blots out. 
was most certainly intended as a dele- 
Jer. Taylor, Diss. from Popery, ii. 2. 
Conscience speaks not as a solitary, independent guide, j-i -._.!_ /js i,,/,ia\ ; rr + ,,1 n f taining to deletion ; deleting or erasi 
but as the delegate of a higher Legislator. delenda (de-len da), n. pi. [L., neut. pi. of . j S > r< delete 
Channing, Perfect Life, p. 8. delendus, ger. of delere, blot out: see delete.] a ^ et , or 7- i ' 7. ii I 
... j i.-. ,. j 'I hat wniAh ovnp nr hints nut,. 
In general, soldiers who should form themselves into Things to be erased or blotted out. 
political clubs, elect delegates, and pass resolutions on delendung. n. Same as delundung. 
Confession 
high questions' of state, Would' soon break loose from all delenificalt (del-e-nif 'i-kal), a. [< L. delenificus, ""T of sin - 
Macaulay. ofiritlnin(r < A,/* soothe, soften (< de + leuire, Dele-winet, n. A kind of wine, perhaps a spe- 
1 cies of Rhenish : possibly so called from being 
imported at Deal, England. Also Deal-wine. 
Do not look for Paracelsus' man among them, that he 
promised you out of white bread and Dele-trine. 
B. Jonson, Mercury Vindicated, vii. 253. 
goothmg) 
Specincally 2. In the United States: (a) A go ften: see lenient), + -ficus, < facere, make.] 
person elected or appointed to represent a Ter- Having the virtue to ease or assuage pain, 
ritory in Congress, as distinguished from the Delesseria (del-e-se'ri-a), n. [NL., named af- 
representatives of States. The territorial delegates 
have seats in the House of Representatives and salaries 
ter Benjamin Delessert (1773-1847), a French 
botanical amateur.] A genus of red marine 
>rganizatic 
persons collectively represent. 3. In Great delessite (de-les'It), n. [After the French 
Britain : (a) A commissioner formerly appoint- mineralogist Delesse.] A ferruginous chloritie 
ed by the crown, under the great seal, to hear mineral of a dark-green color, occurring in cav- 
and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical ities in amygdaloid. 
And doune the pointe thre greynes therin doo. 
Palladivs, Husbi.mlrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 119. 
Some It'ssiT dfl.fr, the fountain's bottom sounding, 
Draw out the baser streams the springs annoying. 
h'letclier, I'urplc Island, iii. la 
