Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Eliminate

(4 syl.). To turn out of doors; to turn out of an equation everything not essential to its conditions. (Latin, e limine, out of doors.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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