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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deliver \De*liv"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delivered}; p. pr &
vb n. {Delivering}.] [F. d['e]livrer, LL deliberare to
liberate, give over fr L. de + liberare to set free See
{Liberate}.]
1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release;
to liberate, as from control; to give up to free to
save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with
from or out of as to deliver one from captivity, or from
fear of death.
He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
--Ezek.
xxxiii 5.
Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian
yoke deliver. --Milton.
2. To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of to
part with (to); to make over to commit; to surrender; to
resign; -- often with up or over to or into
Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
--Gen. xl 13.
The constables have delivered her over --Shak.
The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the
wind. --Pope.
3. To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate;
to utter; to speak; to impart.
Till he these words to him deliver might --Spenser.
Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art,
and the latter the perfection. --Bacon.
4. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as to
deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears.
--Sidney.
An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the
jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it
--Sir W.
Scott.
5. To free from or disburden of young; to relieve of a
child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of
She was delivered safe and soon. --Gower.
Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few
verses, and those poor ones. --Peacham.
6. To discover; to show [Poetic]
I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. --Shak.
7. To deliberate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
8. To admit to allow to pass. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Syn: To {Deliver}, {Give Forth}, {Discharge}, {Liberate},
{Pronounce}, {Utter}.
Usage: Deliver denotes, literally, to set free Hence the
term is extensively applied to cases where a thing is
made to pass from a confined state to one of greater
freedom or openness. Hence it may in certain
connections, be used as synonymous with any or all of
the above-mentioned words as will be seen from the
following examples: One who delivers a package gives
it forth; one who delivers a cargo discharges it one
who delivers a captive liberates him one who delivers
a message or a discourse utters or pronounces it when
soldiers deliver their fire, they set it free or give
it forth.
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