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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.

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.

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or
recall.

The indentures were canceled.

Thackeray.

He was unwilling to cancel the interest
created through former secret services, by being refractory on
this occasion.

Sir W. Scott.

5. (Print.) To suppress or omit;
to strike out, as matter in type.

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.

Can"cel, n. [See Cancel,
v.


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