DELETERY

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.

2.
n.

That which destroys. [Obs.] They [the Scriptures] are the only deletery of heresies. Jer. Taylor.


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