Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To reduce to nothing or nothingness; bring to naught; frustrate. Piers Plowman.
  • In law, to abrogate; make null.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate.

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Examples

  • I am about to write my dissertation on him although I haven' come up with a good enough title yet, I want to look at his undeniable similarities to Shakespeare and how his totally original style is actually firmly founded in comic convention dating back to anient greek and rman comedy.

    P.G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner speaking Michael Allen 2005

  • Sir Robert-Banks Jenkinson,/owr/A Baronet, who was chosen Knight of the shire for the county of Oxon, in his brother's room, and represented the said county in the next pari anient.

    Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • Agreed to take up the caufe anient the fettlement of Crofs and Burnefs on Saturday.

    The Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .... Church of Scotland General Assembly , Church of Scotland , General Assembly 1791

  • The learned of our country, in genera ftrangers to our anient iilerature, and to the lai guage which preferves it, cannot be brought to b Heve that we had any civilization or literature, till tf introdudion of boiir, b 'the firft preachers of il; gofpel.

    Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786

  • Aon iE it itiitkes us guilty anfl obnoxlohs to puniftj - mcnt: and it 'it be a law, it mull be tlic declaration of fome legiflator's will j for tliis is the definition of a law that regulates the manners of a moral anient.

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

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