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1 definition found 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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