Cancel /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Canceled; p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling

1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.]

   A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.

2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.]
3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

   A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

   The indentures were canceled.

   He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.

5. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. (Print.)

1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]

   A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.

2. The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (Print)