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单词 nichillate
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nichillatev.

Forms: 1500s nichillate (past participle), 1500s nichlate (past participle); also Scottish pre-1700 nichillat.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin nichilat-, nichilare.
Etymology: Probably < post-classical Latin nichilat-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix3) of nichilare (c1250, late 14th cent. in British sources), variant of nihilare to reduce to nothing, destroy (see nihilate v.). Compare earlier nihilate v.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To annul. Chiefly in past participle.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > annulled or abrogated
nichillate1560
repealed?1590
1560 in Liverpool Town Bks. (1918) I. 141 The proclamacion..that was nichlate [etc.].
1563 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 5 All other former wylls by hym maide to be voyde, frustrate and nichillate.
1565 Crail Kirk Session 18 Dec. Theirfore we the balyeis minister [etc.]..expell nichillat and mak of non effect the promeis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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