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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Deleteryadjective

    Destructive; deadly; poisonous.

    Etymology: from deleterius, Latin.

    Nor doctor epidemick,
    Though stor’d with deletery med’cines,
    (Which whosoever took is dead since)
    E’er sent so vast a colony
    To both the under worlds as he. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 2.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Deleteryadjective

    destructive; poisonous

  2. Deleterynoun

    that which destroys

  3. Etymology: [LL. deleterius: cf. F. dltre.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of deletery in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of deletery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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    long and thin and often limp
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