Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
1. Natural Means

552. [Suppression of Sign.] Obliteration.

   NOUN:OBLITERATION, erasure, rasure [rare]; cancel, cancellation; circumduction [rare], deletion, blot; tabula rasa [L.]; effacement, extinction.
   VERB:EFFACE, obliterate, erase, rase [rare], expunge, cancel, dele; blot -, take -, rub -, scratch -, strike -, wipe -, wash -, sponge- out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, rule out, apply the sponge.
  BE EFFACED &c.; leave no trace [See Indication]; “leave not a rack behind” [Tempest].
   ADJECTIVE:OBLITERATED &c. v.; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten; printless, out of print.
   INTERJECTION: dele; out with it!    QUOTATION:Delenda est Carthago.—Cato