Past tense of dele; marked for deletion or removal (used in editing and proofreading).
From 'dele' (a proofreading term from Latin 'dele' meaning 'blot out' or 'erase'). The past tense adds regular English '-ed' to the short verb form.
In the printing and editing world, 'dele' and its past tense 'deled' are still used today—editors mark text with a special symbol (⌀) to show what should be deleted, keeping this ancient Latin instruction alive.
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