{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 12, 2019-----delate

WORD OF THE DAY March 12, 2019

delate    verb | dih-LAYT     Definition   1 : accuse, denounce   2 : report, relate   Scroll down for more about delate      TRENDING NOW: trope self-made churlish perdition SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   'Pathetic': A History       'Bathetic' — Video Word of the Day 3/11/2019     The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 3/8/19       'Shard' — Video Word of the Day 3/8/2019         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Return of Name that Color!   Additional colors! More obscure than before!     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   To delate someone is to "hand down" that person to a court of law. In Latin, delatus is the unlikely-looking past participle of deferre, meaning "to bring down, report, or accuse," which in turn comes from ferre, meaning "to carry." Not surprisingly, our word defer, meaning "to yield to the opinion or wishes of another," can also be traced back to deferre. At one time, in fact, defer and delate had parallel meanings (both could mean "to carry down or away" or "to offer for acceptance"), but those senses are now obsolete. Today, you are most likely to encounter delate or its relatives delation and delator in the context of medieval tribunals, although the words can also relate to modern ecclesiastical tribunals.     Examples of DELATE   Hepzibah was brought to trial after being delated for the practice of witchcraft.   "Persons who are delated must first swear to tell the truth concerning themselves and others; if they confess, the judge proceeds accordingly." — H. Ansgar Kelly, Speculum, October 2019   Word Family Quiz   Unscramble the letters to create a noun derived from Latin ferre (meaning "to carry") that carries the meanings of "inference" and "a conclusion inferred": NILOILAT.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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