Word Meanings - DISANNUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To annul completely; to render void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27. Note: The prefix in this word an its derivatives is intensive, and not negative.
Related words: (words related to DISANNUL)
- SHALLOP
A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - DISANNULLER
One who disannuls. - ANNULARITY
Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers. - ANNUL
1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
The quality or state of being negative. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - ANNULOID
Of or pertaining to the Annuloida. - PREFIX
prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle - DISANNULMENT
Complete annulment. - SHALLOON
A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift. - EFFECT
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed - SHALLOW-BRAINED
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. - INTENSIVENESS
The quality or state of being intensive; intensity. Sir M. Hale. - ANNULLER
One who annuls. - ANNULATE
One of the Annulata. - SHALLOW-WAISTED
Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel. - SHALLOW
schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. - DISANNUL
To annul completely; to render void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27. Note: The prefix in this word an its derivatives is intensive, and not negative. - NEGATIVE
Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing - SEMIANNULAR
Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew. - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - MISRENDER
To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.