Re: CHAT: JRRT

Roger Mills scripsit:

> This definition of _dilatory_ bothered me immediately, since I too have been
> accused of being so............ Turns out there is a second, related sense
> of dilate:  "to delay, to defer", adj. dilatory 'tending to delay, defer'
> which I think fits most of us better than "tending to inflate"......:-))))
"Delaying" is surely the meaning which Lewis intended.

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