"These simple ideas, offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse, nor alter, nor <i>blot</i> out, than a mirrour can refuse, alter, or obliterate, the images which the objects produce"
Blot [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]
Johnson, Samuel. <u>A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar</u>. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.