Ēl’i-māte or Ē-lĭ’māte1, v. t.
(117), v. t. [Lat. eliminare, eliminatum, to polish.] To render smooth; to polish. [Obs.]
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Eliminate
E-lĭm’ĭ-nāte2, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. ELIMINATED; p. pr. & vb. n. ELIMINATING.] [Lat. eliminare, eliminatum, from e, out, and limen, threshold; Fr. éliminer.]
Sense 1. To thrust out of doors; to expel; to discharge, or throw off; to set at liberty. [Obs.] Lovelace.
Sense 2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
Sense 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowell.
Sense 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to obtain as the result of elimination; to deduce; to infer; as, to eliminate an idea.