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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eliminate \E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eliminated}; p.
pr & vb n. {Eliminating}.] [L. eliminatus p. p. of
eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes
boundary. See {Limit}.]
1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release;
to set at liberty.
Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces
of thought yet unexplored. --Young.
2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as to
eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive
inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and
accumulating. --Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to
deduce; as to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent,
and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to
excrete; as the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs
carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
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