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单词 to bring to nought
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to bring (also †do, etc.) (all) to nought
a. to bring (also †do, etc.) (all) to nought: = to bring to naught at naught pron. 2a. Now archaic.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)]
to bring to noughteOE
forspillc893
fordilghec900
to bring to naughtOE
astryea1200
stroyc1200
forferec1275
misdoa1325
destroyc1330
naught1340
dingc1380
beshenda1400
devoida1400
unshapea1400
to wend downa1400
brittenc1400
unloukc1400
perishc1426
defeat1435
unmake1439
lithc1450
spend1481
kill1530
to shend ofc1540
quade1565
to make away1566
discreate1570
wrake1570
wracka1586
unwork1587
gaster1609
defease1621
unbe1624
uncreate1633
destructa1638
naufragate1648
stifle1725
stramash1788
disannul1794
destructify1841
locust1868
to knock out1944
dick1972
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxxvii. 59 Ad nihilum redegit nimis Israhel : to nowihte gebegeð swiðe [Israhel].
c1175 ( Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Bodl.) 50 He to nohte dæð [OE Laud to nahte gedeð] ure derigendlicæ feond.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 138 [The Eucharist] bringeð to noht al þes deofles wiheles.
c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 4 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 1 (MED) Alle þe heþene men þat neiȝ him were, sone he dude to nouȝte.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5466 (MED) Þe contreye folc com mid gret route & driue hom al to noȝte.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Kings xxiii. 7 Þei schul ben brent vn to nouȝt [L. usque ad nihilum].
1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 42 (MED) He schal be so tymelich vesited & holpen þat he ne schal..for defaute of help, be brouȝt to nouȝt.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 680 So had better haf ben þen britned to noȝt.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1212 They shall by proces brynge us all to nought.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 135 Wo wirth the fruct wald put the tre to nocht.
1533 W. Hilton Scale of Perfection ii. xlv Spoyleth hym & renteth hym al to nought.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 21 Sen then nocht onlie smal thingis bot the maist heich wes doung almaist to nocht.
1581 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Troas (new ed.) iii. iii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 112 The haughtiest heart at lengh they bring to nought.
a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) iii. l. 5 [They] are now in armes, entending to destroy And bring to nought, the Prince of Aragon.
c1650 J. Spalding Mem. Trubles Scotl. & Eng. I. 136 [They] brocht all to nocht.
1651 A. Weamys Contin. Sydney's Arcadia 90 The Treacherie of Plaxirtus was brought to nought, for Pyrocles and Musidorus were miraculously preserved.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 232 Recov'ring..The faculties that seem'd reduc'd to nought.
1851 J. Baillie 2nd Pt. Ethwald i. iii. 172 Our good saint will bring to nought Their wicked machinations.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 186 Zeal and courage..brought to nought by..cowardice and selfishness.
1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Drunk Man in Compl. Poems (1993) I. 121 The fond hope brocht to nocht.
1989 A. Livesey Great Battles of World War I (BNC) 41 The Austrians were not able to trap Plelive, and Conrad's plan was brought to nought.
extracted from noughtpron.n.adv.adj.
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