Hypertext Webster Gateway: "liquidate"

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

Liquidate \Liq"ui*date\ (l[i^]k"w[i^]*d[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. {Liquidated} (-d[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Liquidating}.] [LL. liquidatus, p. p. of liquidare to
liquidate, fr. L. liquidus liquid, clear. See {Liquid}.]
1. (Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the
precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an
indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the
precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount
of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.

A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount
due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the
operation of law. --15 Ga. Rep.
321.

If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I
believe you would be brought in considerable debtor.
--Chesterfield.

2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the
several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge
of (an indebtedness). --Abbott.

3. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to
liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. --W. Coxe.

4. To make clear and intelligible.

Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of
a compound system. --A. Hamilton.

5. To make liquid. [Obs.]

{Liquidated damages} (Law), damages the amount of which is
fixed or ascertained. --Abbott.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

liquidate
v 1: get rid of; kill; "The mafia liquidated the informer" [syn:
{waste}, {knock off}, {do in}]
2: eliminate by paying off; as of debts [syn: {pay off}]


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