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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deliver \De*liv"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delivered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Delivering}.] [F. d['e]livrer, LL. deliberare to
     liberate, give over, fr. L. de + liberare to set free. See
     {Liberate}.]
     1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release;
        to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to


        save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with
        from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from
        fear of death.
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              He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
                                                    --Ezek.
                                                    xxxiii. 5.
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              Promise was that I
              Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to
        part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to
        resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
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              Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
                                                    --Gen. xl. 13.
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              The constables have delivered her over. --Shak.
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              The exalted mind
              All sense of woe delivers to the wind. --Pope.
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     3. To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate;
        to utter; to speak; to impart.
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              Till he these words to him deliver might. --Spenser.
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              Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art,
              and the latter the perfection.        --Bacon.
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     4. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to
        deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
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              Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears.
                                                    --Sidney.
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              An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the
              jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     5. To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a
        child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
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              She was delivered safe and soon.      --Gower.
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              Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few
              verses, and those poor ones.          --Peacham.
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     6. To discover; to show. [Poetic]
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              I 'll deliver
              Myself your loyal servant.            --Shak.
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     7. To deliberate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     8. To admit; to allow to pass. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
     Syn: To {Deliver}, {Give Forth}, {Discharge}, {Liberate},
          {Pronounce}, {Utter}.
  
     Usage: Deliver denotes, literally, to set free. Hence the
            term is extensively applied to cases where a thing is
            made to pass from a confined state to one of greater
            freedom or openness. Hence it may, in certain
            connections, be used as synonymous with any or all of
            the above-mentioned words, as will be seen from the
            following examples: One who delivers a package gives
            it forth; one who delivers a cargo discharges it; one
            who delivers a captive liberates him; one who delivers
            a message or a discourse utters or pronounces it; when
            soldiers deliver their fire, they set it free or give
            it forth.
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