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Definition of Delenda
1. n. pl. Things to be erased or blotted out.
Definition of Delenda
1. Noun. things to be deleted or removed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Delenda
1. things to be deleted [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delenda
Literary usage of Delenda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's History of England, from the Earliest Times to 1885: From the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1891)
"'delenda est Carthago.' 1673.—On February 4, 1673. Charles, having once more
spent all his money, again met his Parliament. Shaftesbury urged the voting of ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies by James Boswell (1791)
"... and that this memento, like delenda eft Carthago, muft be in every letter that I
... delenda ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"... who followed the Speech from the Throne with a skilful and inflammatory harangue
on the text "delenda est Carthago" that obtained an immediate vote of a ..."
4. A Students History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1907)
"‘delenda est Carthago.' 1673.—On February 4, 1673. Charles, having once more
spent all his money, again met his Parliament. Shaftesbury urged the voting of ..."
5. Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1906)
"15), ' delenda est Carthago.'"—Si* WILLIAM SMITH. IT is not my purpose in these
pages to write the history of Carthage inch by inch, nor to detail the ..."
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