单词 | annul |
释义 | annulv. 1. a. transitive. To declare, esp. legally or officially, that (an agreement, decision, result, etc.) is not valid or no longer in effect; to render void, invalid, or ineffective. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity abatea1325 squatcha1325 voida1325 allayc1325 annul1395 reverse1395 revokec1400 rupt?a1425 repealc1425 abroge1427 defeat1429 purloin1461 cassa1464 toll1467 resume1472 reprove1479 suspend1488 discharge1495 reduce1498 cassate1512 defease1512 denulla1513 disannula1513 fordoa1513 avoid1514–5 abrogate?1520 frustrate1528 revert1528 disaffirm?1530 extinct1530 resolve1537 null1538 nihilate1545 extinguish1548 elidec1554 revocate1564 annullate1570 squat1577 skaila1583 irritate1605 retex1606 nullify1607 unable1611 refix1621 vitiate1627 invalid1643 vacate1643 unlaw1644 outlaw1647 invalidate1649 disenact1651 vacuate1654 supersedec1674 destroy1805 break1891 Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 124 (MED) Whethir an eretyk..cristeneth in the knoulechinge of the Holi Trinite, he that is baptisid so mai not be baptisid agen of gode cristene men, lest the knoulechinge..of so greet name seme to be adnullid othir set at nought. 1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 58/2 That..alle other Commissions brought or pursued azeyns any of hise fre tenauntz..mowen alle utterly ben repeled and adnulled. 1425 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 3 His pretense of his title to þe priourie of Bromholm is adnulled. 1506 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 108 I anulle and revoke all the villes mad by for this date. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 60 Quhen the kingis authoritie war anulit. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. i. 11 The Pardon of the Earle of Arundell is adnulled. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 428 This God-like act Annuls thy doom. View more context for this quotation a1713 A. Pitcairne Assembly (1722) ii. iii. 40 Cannot we make an Act and Declaration of Assembly rescinding and annulling that Act of Parliament, and there's an End o't. 1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 70 It would be unjust to annul that contract. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 175 A bill, which should at once annul all the statutes passed by the Long Parliament. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 179/2 A pass counts for nothing but annuls a previous fault. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1958) i. i. 23 Any sensible executors..would have had the terms of Stokesay's will annulled long ago. 2016 MailOnline (Nexis) 19 Sept. Results..could be annulled if allegations of vote fraud are confirmed. b. transitive. spec. To declare (a marriage) to have had no legal existence. Cf. annulment n. 2b.Annulment is distinguished from divorce, the legal dissolution of a marriage, and legal (or judicial) separation, by which a husband and wife remain married but live apart, following a court order. ΚΠ ?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student vi. f. xiii The fyrste maryage was adnullyd by that deuorce. 1616 T. Gainsford Hist. Trebizond iv. 302 The Maryage of Roxana he anulled, dilating besides the hapinesse depending. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 435 To annul the marriage and bastardize the issue. 1882 Amer. Law Reg. Sept. 589 Although the marriage in Illinois was valid, the decree of the court of Wurtemberg annulling it must be accepted as having destroyed the marital status resulting from the marriage. 1926 C. S. Churchill Let. 6 Sept. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 299 Consuelo tells me that her marriage..has been annulled by the Pope! 1997 Lat. Mass Fall 34/1 My former husband asked the Catholic Church to annul our marriage. 2. a. transitive. To annihilate, extinguish, destroy (a person or thing). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence dilghec897 defacec1386 annul1395 anientec1400 refer?c1400 extinct1484 annihil1490 delete1495 out-terma1500 perspoil1523 extaintc1540 extinguish1555 blot1561 wipe1564 to cut the throat of1565 annihilate1567 dissipatea1575 annihilate1586 nullify1609 nullize1615 expunge1628 nothing1637 null1647 extramund1654 be-nothing1674 erase1728 obliterate1798 simoom1821 to tear to shreds1837 snuff1852 mop1859 to take out1900 napoo1915 naught1958 12 Concl. Lollards (Trin. Hall Cambr.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) 22 297 Þat þe priuat religions..were most worthi to ben anullid. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 277) (1910) 26 Elleȝ þe fruyte and þe vertue with þe effecte of the medycyne schal be annulled. c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 517 (MED) The second poynt and articule..is so fryvolus..that with a blaste your rayson may be anulled. 1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. vii. 21 They endeuour not to be adnulled, but to keepe themselues in being. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 72 Light..to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd . View more context for this quotation a1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks (1715) III. 143 (note) Absolute Power annuls the Publick: And where there is no Publick, or Constitution, there is in reality no Mother-Country, or Nation. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. iii. vi. §1 If two causes..exactly annul one another. 1997 T. Morrison Paradise 16 Out There where your children were sport, your women quarry, and where your very person could be annulled. ΚΠ c1425 Treat. Ten Commandments in Stud. Philol. (1910) 6 27 (MED) Þe bacbiter sleeth himself & his heerer, and anulluth him þat he bacbituth. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 108 The crowne of worship shal be take from hem, and with shame shul they be anulled. 3. transitive. To bring (an action, process, or state of affairs) to an end; to put a stop to (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] fordoOE allayOE withdrawc1290 withclepe13.. again-callc1390 to call againc1390 repealc1390 revokec1400 unmakec1400 rive1415 annulc1425 abroge1427 uncommandc1430 discharge?a1439 retreatc1443 retract1501 cancela1513 abrogate?1520 dissolve1526 extinct1531 rescind1531 abrenounce1537 infringe1543 recall1565 unwrite1577 extinguish1590 exauctorate1593 relinquish1594 unact1594 to strike off1597 undecide1601 unpass1606 to take off1609 to draw back1610 reclaim1615 to put back1616 abrenunciate1618 unrip1622 supersedeate1641 to set off1642 unassure1643 unorder1648 to ask away1649 disdetermine1651 unbespeak1661 undecree1667 reassumea1675 off-break1702 circumduct1726 raise1837 resiliate1838 denounce1841 disorder1852 pull1937 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 372 (MED) Grekis han annullid his fraunchise. a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 8498 I can not se How this turnement myght anuled [a1500 BL Add. anulled] Be. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.viij Julius Cesar..adnulled and vndyd all that Sylla hadde made. 1795 Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 16 Signal to annul coming to the wind on the larboard tack. 1846 H. Grote Let. 18 June in T. H. Lewin Lewin Lett. (1909) II. 40 The weather had already annulled my project of going over to Aix to hear Jenny Lind. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iii. 101 The saviour of Israel is he who makes Israel..conquer and annul his sensuality. 1994 U. Hegi Stones from River xviii. 430 The Ami who was assigned to her house gave her a crate of peaches that annulled years of hunger in her flat belly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < v.1395 |
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