Cancel

Definition of Cancel

Can´cel

v. i.

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

[imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling.]

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

- Evelyn.

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

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.

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.

(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.

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

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.

(Print) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

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