单词 | frustratory |
释义 | † frustratoryadj. Obsolete. Tending to frustrate, balk, defeat, or make void. In early use also: Resulting in disappointment, disappointing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [adjective] > frustrating frustratory1490 frustrative1730 frustrating1841 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adjective] > thwarting frustratory1490 frustrative1730 thwarting1878 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > unavailing gainlessc1175 speedless13.. unspeedfula1340 ineffectualc1425 frustratory1490 unvailablea1500 frustrate1529 uneffectual1548 unavailable1549 unfectual1549 bootless1559 dudgeon?1589 inavailable1650 unavailing1672 dud1914 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 78 Many goynges & comynges were there made of the sayd anne..that fynably were all frustratoire. 1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 5 With convenyent spede without any frustratory delay. 1592 R. Cosin Conspiracie for Pretended Reformation 60 Then would he..by frustratorie kindes of answeres goe about to put off such interrogatories. 1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 144 If this be not true, that was frustratory, and of no availment to Socrates. 1681 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Naked Truth 26 Without Frustatory Delay. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 75 Bartolus restrains this to a Frustatory Appeal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1490 |
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