\E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eliminated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Eliminating}.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of
eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes
boundary. See {Limit}.]
1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release;
   to set at liberty.
         Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces
         of thought yet unexplored.            --Young.
2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to
   eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive
   inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
         Eliminate errors that have been gathering and
         accumulating.                         --Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to
   deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent,
   and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to
   excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs
   carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.