Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Delete \De*lete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deleted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Deleting}.] [L. deletus, p. p. of delere to destroy. Cf.
   1st {Dele}.]
   To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

         I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which
         do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have
         deleted eight.                           --Aytoun.