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nullify, v.|ˈnʌlɪfaɪ|
[ad. late L. nullificāre (Tertullian), f. nulli-, nullus null a.: see -fy. So F. nullifier.]
1. trans. To render legally null and void; to annul, cancel.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars iii. lxxxix, Which accusation was th' occasion, that His successour by order nullifies Many his Patents. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 353 He nullified all the indulgences granted to the French. 1643Marshall Lett. 22 The judgements of all other Courts are ratified or nullified by a Parliament. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 38 By crossing the Atlantick he has not nullified his right. 1817Cobbett Wks. XXXII. 360 Seeing that the act nullifies their previous engagement. 1825Gentl. Mag. XCV. i. 501 This bequest being to the poor indefinitely, nullified his will. 1880E. Kirke Life Garfield 43 It was that act which South Carolina nullified and refused to allow to be executed within her borders.
absol.1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xviii. 186 I'd be glad to know if we couldn't nullify. 1837J. C. Calhoun Wks. III. 57 The State of South Carolina..declared the act to be unconstitutional, and as such null and void. In a word, we nullified.
2. a. To make of no value, use, or efficacy; to reduce to nothingness; to efface completely.
1609E. Hoby Let. to T. H[iggons] 56 If Aërius..doe ioyne with the Primitiue Church, in nullifying oblations for the dead. 1642J. Eaton Honey-c. Free Justif. 373 If it heale not these,..is not Justification nullified, and made of no use? 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 218 He hath weakened, yea, nullified and taken away sin. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 26 Enough, surely, has been said to nullify the Colonists' plea of having bought their lands of the Indians. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 509 These facts..could by no means subvert and nullify the very obvious and evident advantages. 1850Grote Greece ii. lx. (1862) V. 288 The narrow dimensions of the harbour would have nullified her superiority at all times. 1876Farrar St. Paul (1883) 47 They had long learnt to nullify what they professed to defend.
b. With personal object.
1603J. Davies Microcos. Wks. (Grosart) I. 43/1 If other⁓wise he should with them abide, They would through glory be quite nullified. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iv. Interm. iv, I would haue..her Graces Herald to..nullifie him for no Gentleman. 1642Rogers Naaman 311 Absolutely un⁓subsisting in themselves, meerly nullified. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. i. (1852) 343 Thus content was he to be nullified, that the Lord might be magnified. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe I. i. §63. 106 He not only brought the nobility to Paris, but he nullified them when there.
Hence ˈnullifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 50 Such usurpations are the Neronian nullifyings of Kingdomes. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 226 The violating of the Covenant is not fitly called a nullifying of it. 1681― Answ. Dodwell iii. 22 Against even the Nullifying Canons. 1832W. Irving Life & Lett. (1866) III. 44, I dined with him at Governor Hamilton's, the nullifying Governor. 1852W. Hanna Mem. Dr. Chalmers IV. xiii. 203 A nullifying edict..from the Civil Court. |