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Definition of Cancil

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.

Can"cel, n. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.]

1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]

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.

2. (Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • to cross out something with lines etc
  • to invalidate or annul something
  • to mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused
  • to offset or equalize something
  • (mathematics) to remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation
  • to counterbalance or neutralize each other
  • a cancellation
  • (music) a mark cancelling a previous sharp or flat
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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