rasure†; cancel, cancellation; circumduction†; deletion, blot; tabula
rasa [Lat.]; effacement, extinction.
V. efface, obliterate, erase, raze†, rase†, expunge, cancel; blot out,
take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge
out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the
pen through, apply the sponge.
be effaced &c; leave no trace &c 550; leave not a rack behind
Adj. obliterated &c v.; out of print; printless†; leaving no trace;
intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
Int. dele; out with it!,
Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat.] [Cato].