Cancello, cancellas, cancellâre. Col. To make in forme of lattife: to cancell or crosse out a thing written.Cancellata cutis elephantorum. Plin. With crosse strikes or barres like a lattise.Cancellatus brachiorum implexus. Plin. Cast crosse. Cancellare restamentum. Vlpi. To cancell or crosse out.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cancello, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cancelli] (post-Aug.). I. In gen., to make like a lattice, to lattice: solum, i. e. with vines, Col. 4, 2, 2: cancellata cutis (elephanti), Plin. 8, 10, 10, 30; cf. cancelli: cancellato bracchiorum implexu, id. 9, 51, 74, 164. —II. Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists, to strike out a writing lattice-wise (*x), to strike or cross out, to cancel: testamentum, Dig. 28, 4, 2: chirographum, ib. 22, 3, 24: tabulae cautionesque cancellatae, ib. 47, 2, 84; 2, 14, 47, 2; 29, 1, 15, 1; Cod. 6, 33, 3.