Cancel (?), 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.]
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A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.
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2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] “Canceled from heaven.” Milton.
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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.
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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.
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4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
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The indentures were canceled. Thackeray.
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He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott.
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5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
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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.
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