Obs. rare. [f. L. cancellāt- ppl. stem of cancellā-re to CANCEL: see -ATE3.] trans. a. To inclose, rail in; b. to strike out, cancel. Hence Cancellating vbl. sb.
1647. Jer. Taylor, Dissuas. Popery, i. (1686), 16. He was forced to cancellate or blot out many sayings of St. Ambrose. Ibid. (1649), Gt. Exemp., xix. § 12 (1703), 375. This act was like to cancellating and a circumvallation of the holy mysteries.
