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单词 nullify
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nullifyv.

Brit. /ˈnʌlᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈnələˌfaɪ/
Forms: 1500s– nullify, 1600s nullifie.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nullificare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin nullificare to hold in contempt, despise (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian, citing Vetus Latina) < nulli- nulli- comb. form + -ficare -fy suffix.
1. transitive. To discredit, efface, or undermine (a person or group of people). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > bring discredit on or bring into disrepute
unworthyc1230
alosea1325
low1340
ensclaundre1389
foulc1390
disparagea1400
deface1529
depress1550
discredit?1550
ignoblec1590
redound1591
reproach1593
blame1596
nullify1603
scandal1606
sinka1616
even1625
explode1629
disrepute1649
disrepute1651
lese1678
rogue1678
reflect1769
disconsider1849
dispraise1879
1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 100 If otherwise he should with them abide, They would through glory be quite nullified.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Intermean iv. 58 in Wks. II I would haue..her Graces Herald, to..nullifie him for no Gentleman.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 311 Absolutely unsubsisting in themselves, meerly nullified.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. App. 63/2 Thus content was he to be nullified, that the Lord might be magnified.
1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) I. i. 106 He not only brought the nobility to Paris, but he nullified them when there.
1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 247 That weak kind of universalism which nullifies some otherwise good men.
1991 M. Young Inside Job i. 46 Even the civilian academics at the college seem to be nullified by the overriding police desire for circumspection in the written account and preference for academic silence.
2.
a. transitive. To render legally null and void; to annul or invalidate.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity
abatea1325
squatcha1325
voida1325
allayc1325
annul1395
reverse1395
revokec1400
rupt?a1425
repealc1425
abroge1427
defeat1429
purloin1461
cassa1464
toll1467
resume1472
reprove1479
suspend1488
discharge1495
reduce1498
cassate1512
defease1512
denulla1513
disannula1513
fordoa1513
avoid1514–5
abrogate?1520
frustrate1528
revert1528
disaffirm?1530
extinct1530
resolve1537
null1538
nihilate1545
extinguish1548
elidec1554
revocate1564
annullate1570
squat1577
skaila1583
irritate1605
retex1606
nullify1607
unable1611
refix1621
vitiate1627
invalid1643
vacate1643
unlaw1644
outlaw1647
invalidate1649
disenact1651
vacuate1654
supersedec1674
destroy1805
break1891
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 353 He nullified [Fr. annula] all the indulgences granted to the French.
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. lxxxix. 85 Which accusation was th'occasion, that His successour by order nullifies Many his Patents.
1643 S. Marshall Copy of Let. 22 The judgements of all other Courts are ratified or nullified by a Parliament.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 38 By crossing the Atlantick he has not nullified his right.
1798 T. Jefferson Public Papers xiii. 453 Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis,) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits.
1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 22 Mar. 360 Seeing that the act nullifies their previous engagement.
1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 501 This bequest being to the poor indefinitely, nullified his will.
1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 43 It was that act which South Carolina nullified and refused to allow to be executed within her borders.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Wilson Sir Charles R. It became clear that an irresponsible khedive of Ismail's prestige and power could nullify any measures taken by a ministry without his previous advice.
1957 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples III. ix. viii. 283 A state could review acts of Congress and nullify any measure deemed unconstitutional.
1987 Sanity Sept. 7/1 The latest in a long line of referenda had nullified an element in the island's constitution.
b. intransitive. To invalidate something; to render an act, instrument, agreement, etc., null and void. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xviii. 186 I'd be glad to know if we couldn't nullify.
1837 J. 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.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 96 Disinterested Vicar of our Lord, This way he abrogates and disallows, Nullifies and ignores.
3. transitive. To render (a thing, action, undertaking, etc.) of no value, use, or efficacy; to reduce to nothing, to cancel out. Also occasionally intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 56 If Aërius..doe ioyne with the Primitiue Church, in nullifying oblations for the dead.
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 373 If it heale not these,..is not Justification nullified, and made of no use?
1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 314 He hath weakned, yea nullified and taken away sin.
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 26 Enough, surely, has been said to nullify the Colonists' plea of having bought their lands of the Indians.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 509 These facts..could by no means subvert and nullify the very obvious and evident advantages.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 452 The narrow dimensions of the harbour would have nullified her superiority at all times.
1876 F. W. Farrar Life St. Paul I. i. iv. 69 They had long learnt to nullify what they professed to defend.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 281 With all due deference he submitted that Mr Forsyte's expression nullified itself.
1959 R. Lowell Life Stud. ii. 26 All this pedantry was nullified by the introduction of a new textbook.
1988 Hindu 25 Feb. 14/1 At one stage, Bhopal nullified the 2–0 lead but fumbled in the second half to let in four goals.

Derivatives

ˈnullifying n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation
anientizement1429
deletiona1513
extincting1513
annihilment1526
exterminion1528
nulling1538
annihilation1541
exterminationc1550
nullity1555
annihilating1577
massacre1595
extinguishment1599
extinct1606
expunction1615
extinction1615
discreationa1628
nullificationa1631
nullifying1640
decreation1647
defacedness1668
extinguishinga1676
erasurea1794
exterminating1796
blotting out1808
naughting1913
wipeout1968
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > annulling or abrogating
cassing1550
revocatory1590
irritant1592
rescissory1606
nullifying1640
repealing1648
rescissorian1658
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 204 And so to attempt the nullifying of that act, and loosning of that knot which by divine Ordinance should bee indissoluble.
1648 W. Prynne Machivilian Cromwellist 6 By this Treasonable force, practise and Declaration, was this nullifying Ordinance, against a thousand-fold less force, forced to pass the House when thin and empty.
1681 R. Baxter Answer to Mr. Dodwell iii. 22 Against even the Nullifying Canons.
1883 Amer. Missionary Dec. 377 That they are overborne is seen in the nullifying of their votes in the South.
a1935 E. A. Robinson Dionysus in Doubt in Coll. Poems (1937) 864 But your proficient idiom, not averse To nonsense or a nullifying curse, Will pray for you.
1991 D. Craig King Cameron iv. 43 We shall petition government for an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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