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† ˈnaufrage Obs.
Also 5 naw-.
[a. F. naufrage (1461), ad. L. naufragium for *nāvifragium, f. nāvi-s ship + frag-, frangĕre to break.]
Shipwreck: a. in figurative uses.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xxi, To gyve her entresignes, by whych she may see appertly the nawfrage and peryll of her husbonde. c1577Buchanan Let. Wks. (S.T.S.) 57 Ye being anis escapit the tempestuous stormes and naufrage of mariage. 1628Sir W. Mure Fancies Farew. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 195 That impetuous streame, Where fynest wits haue frequent naufrage made. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 469 To the hazard of their State which hath lately scaped Naufrage. 1715J. Barker Exilius (1736) Pref., To avoid such dangerous Naufrages, and fix their Affections where Duty and Merit require.
b. in literal sense. (Chiefly Law.)
1623Cockeram 1, Naufrage, shipwracke. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 1 Thus then being certaine of naufrage. 1681Stair Instit. i. x. §24. 132 In no case is the borrower oblieged for any Accident, as Death, Naufrage, Burning, unless he hath undertaken that hazard. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 416 No Abandoning can be made, but in Case of Capture, Naufrage, Bulging, Stranding, Embargo..or an entire loss of the Thing insured. |