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▪ I. † ˈfruster, a. and n. Sc. Obs.
Also frustar, -ir, -yr.
[? Back-formation from fruster v. or frustrate.]
A. adj. Fruitless, ineffectual, meaningless, vain; empty of (deeds). Also absol. in fruster: in vain.
c1470Henry Wallace iv. 345 In frustyr termys I will nocht tarry long. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlvi. 53 He of natur that wirker wes and king, Wald no thing frustir put. Ibid. lxv. 21 To ws..in our darkness be lampis in schyning: Or than in frustar is [all] ȝour lang leirning. 1508― Tua Mariit Wemen 190 He has a forme without force, And fair wordis but effect, all fruster of dedis.
B. n. Frustration, disappointment.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 313 Quhat suld I spek of frustir?
▪ II. † ˈfruster, v. Obs.
[ad. Fr. frustrer, ad. L. frustrārī: see frustrate v.]
1. trans. To balk or defraud of something due or expected. Also, to falsify (a prediction).
1490Caxton Eneydos xii. 45 Pygmalyon the wolde haue frustred of the grete tresours and Rychesses that he awayteth to haue of thy somtyme husbande. Ibid. xxii. 80 Prenostycatures..that to her were frustred.
2. To bring to nought, render useless; to frustrate (an enterprise); to destroy, lay waste, ruin. Also intr. for refl.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxi. 78 Quhen flude and fyre sall our it frak, And frely frustir feild and fure. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 45 [This] wald be caus sone efterwart perchance The commoun weill to fruster and to faill. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xviii. 50 Bot God, that hes thy Maiestie in cure, Will fruster all thair fulische Interprysis. c1611Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 1127 Have these..Withstood your Fury, and repulst your Powrs, Frust'red your Rams, fired your flying Towrs? |