| 释义 |
non-ˈsolvent, a. (n.)
[non- 3.]
A. adj. Not solvent; unable to pay debts; insolvent.
1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iv. Interm., Cen. For a decay'd wit— Exp. Broken— Tat. Non-soluent. 1644Heylin Stumbling-block Tracts (1681) 679 Unless,..being one of the Farmers of the Tolls and Taxes,..he became non-solvent, and had not cleared his accompt with the Common-wealth. 1669Owen Doctr. Trin. Vind. (1851) II. 437 The debt which He took upon Himself, and discharged for us, when we were nonsolvent, in His love.
B. n. One who is unable to pay his debts.
1647Trapp Comm. Luke vii. xlii, We are all non-solvents, stark beggars. |