单词 | nugation |
释义 | nugationn. Now rare. Triviality, trifling; pointless or meaningless speech or action; an instance of this, a trifle. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > frivolity or lack of seriousness nugationc1450 nugacity1593 fiddling1622 frivolousnessa1631 nugality1676 futility1692 futileness1727 flippancy1746 frivolity1796 nugatoriness1853 frippery1855 fiddle1874 fribble1881 frivolling1882 fribblery1889 trifledom1903 c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 2115 (MED) Lete other men here hem that loue nugacyon; ffor other many materis must come on hande. ?1540 Britton's Treat. Laws Eng. To Rdr. sig. ✠ii And the endytours, fyrst makers, and deuysers of the same lernynges moste chefly to be lauded and had in memory, for theyr brefe, pythythye [sic], and substancial wrytynges, without ambages, nugacions, or surplusage. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iii. i. 318 Conveighing the Riotters unto the gaole: without which the arrest were but nugation. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. (1843) i. 144 Then followeth that vain nugation which I have noted against Saunder. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) To Rdr. 350 Many impertinent digressions, and some meere nugations. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §836 As for the Received Opinion,..it is but Nugation. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 309 If it were not determined to this sense it would rather be a Nugation..then an Interpretation. 1911 tr. St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theol. I. i. xi. 112 It does not follow that any nugation [L. nugatio] exist if we say that being is one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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