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Quotation dates: 1572-1693
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Obliterat, p.p. Also: -ate, obliturat. [e.m.E. obliterate (1613), L. oblit(t)erāt-us p.p. of oblit(t)erāre: cf. also e.m.E. obliterate v. (1600), -ated p.p. (1611).] Obliterated. a. Of material things: Effaced, blotted out. b. Of non-material things: Annulled, cancelled. — 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 314.
All processis, writtingis thairanent to be cancellat and obliturat 1612 Fife Synod 53.
That the paintrie quhilk is vpon the pulpitt and ruid laft … salbe obliterate … with grein colour a1650 Row 190.
It is concluded that all those greevances be obliterat and buried 1669 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 255.
The Kinges armes wpon the wtter part of the Gallowgate port … was much obliterat 1693 Fraser in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 216.
Ther hes been many inscriptions upon the tombs and pillars, the most is obliterat
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