Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cancel"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cancel \Can"cel\, n. [See {Cancel}, v. i., and cf. {Chancel}.]
1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of
serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . .
desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the
body. --Jer. Taylor.

2. (Print)
(a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or
of a printed page or pages.
(b) The part thus suppressed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canceled} or {Cancelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Canceling} or {Cancelling}.] [L. cancellare
to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr.
canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars,
dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. ? latticed gate. Cf.
{Chancel}.]
1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with
latticework. [Obs.]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is
the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was
scourged. --Evelyn.

2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to
exclude. [Obs.] ``Canceled from heaven.'' --Milton.

3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a
word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out
or obliterate.

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be
cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in
the form of latticework or cancelli; though the
phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of
obliterating or defacing it. --Blackstone.

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

The indentures were canceled. --Thackeray.

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created
through former secret services, by being refractory
on this occasion. --Sir W.
Scott.

5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in
type.

{Canceled figures} (Print), figures cast with a line across
the face., as for use in arithmetics.

Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge;
annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do
away; set aside. See {Abolish}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cancel
n : a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: {natural}]
v 1: postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;
"Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"
[syn: {call off}]
2: make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior
strength" [syn: {offset}, {set off}]
3: declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the
election results"; "strike down a law" [syn: {strike down}]
4: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your
list" [syn: {delete}]
5: of cheques or tickets [syn: {invalidate}]


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