单词 | quashing |
释义 | quashingn. The action of quash v., in various senses. ΚΠ a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 1191 (MED) At eche kernel was cry & quasschyng [v.rr. crassynge, cratching, cacchyng] of wepne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 419 Quaschynge, quassacio. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cassation, a cassation, a quashing, cassing, breaking. 1703 Case of Conscience 80 The quashing of the Constitutions of the Sea Apostolick. 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May viii. 130 When the Butter is come, which you may know by its Quashing. 1785 T. Marryat Therapeutics (ed. 7) 99 This is to be known by the quashing of water. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xxv. 408 A rare trade, this quashing trade! 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 270 A factitious quashing of any sensibility. 1998 Daily Tel. 29 Oct. 2/6 Lord Bingham directed that the quashing of the second warrant..should be stayed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quashingadj. That quashes (in various senses of the verb). ΚΠ a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vi. 113 A Notion..of a dangerous and quashing import to the spirit of all signal excellency. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 55 They were the out quashingest set of fellows ever known. a1904 T. Stickney Poems (1905) 6 Locked by the vastly circular, Walls o' the sea, the quashing roof of heaven. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400adj.a1665 |
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