Senses having to do with birth.
the doctor delivered the baby
To free from or disburden of anything.
Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
Capable, agile, or active.
Therefore my policy and advice shall be this: That about the dead time of the night, when our enemies be most quiet at rest, there shall issue from us a number of the most deliverest soldiers to assault their camp; who shall give the assault right secretly, even directly against the entry of the camp, which is almost invincible.
From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin dē + līberō (“to set free”). Compare typologically dispatch, analyzable as dis- + impeach, from Latin impedicō (als...
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