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The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or "incommunicable name" of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost.

Of or pertaining to Jones. The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.

he letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.

same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it. Verbatim et literatim Etym: [LL.], word for word, and letter for letter.

A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.