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   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.]
   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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   To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] “Canceled from heaven.”  
   Milton.
   
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   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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   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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   (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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   Cancel, n. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.]
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   An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]
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   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.
   
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   (Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed.
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