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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canceled} or {Cancelled}; p. pr & vb n. {Canceling} or {Cancelling}.] [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr canceller, OF canceler) fr cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf Gr ? latticed gate. Cf {Chancel}.] 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. --Evelyn. 2. To shut out as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] ``Canceled from heaven.'' --Milton. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. (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. Syn: To blot out obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away set aside. See {Abolish}.
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