单词 | to enervate the force of |
释义 | > as lemmasto enervate the force of a. To destroy the force of (arguments, testimony, etc.); to destroy the grounds of (a doctrine, an opinion); to render ineffectual (a law, an authority, an opponent's efforts, etc.). Obsolete. Sometimes expanded into to enervate the force of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > by proving error or weakness reprovea1398 falsifyc1449 enervate1565 convince1583 disprove1584 imposture1622 distest1647 disauthenticate1658 convict1717 negative1790 unsubstantiate1799 to show up1893 1565 T. Dorman Disproufe M. Nowelles Reproufe xxi. f. 152v To eneruate and weaken..the auctoritye of generall councelles. 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr x. 271 Because the Glosse is now by some thought, to be of equal authoritie with the Text, it is not an inconuenient way to eneruate both. 1634 W. H. D. Longstaffe Acts High Comm. Court Durham (1858) 99 To enervaite the testimony of the wittnesses. 1653 G. Ashwell Fides Apostolica 271 I..have enervated most of those Arguments, which I have found brought against either. 1672 I. Newton Let. 20 Feb. in Corr. (1959) I. 116 So acute an objecter hath said nothing that can enervate any part of it [sc. my discourse]. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 108 A..Prince, who hath not enervated those Machinations. 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 360 He might..enervate the Force and Vigour of all Divine Injunctions. a1718 W. Penn Wks. (1726) I. 452 Something that can resolve its Doubts, answer its Objections, enervate its Propositions. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 417 In the next year..this wise provision was enervated, by only, etc. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. iii. 112 Enervate the force of legislative sanctions. < as lemmas |
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