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delay

n. [F. dlai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See Tolerate, and cf. Differ, Delay, v.] A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. ()

Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. (Acts xxv. 17.)

The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. (Macaulay.)

v. t. [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun dlai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See Delay, n., and cf. Delate, 1st Defer, Dilate.]1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. ()

My lord delayeth his coming. (Matt. xxiv. 48.)

2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. ()

Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. (Milton.)

3. To allay; to temper. ()

The watery showers delay the raging wind. (Surrey.)

v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. ()

There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. (Locke.)