disannul
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disannul (third-person singular simple present disannuls, present participle disannulling, simple past and past participle disannulled)
- To annul, do away with; to cancel.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
- Ye shall not thynke that I am come to disanull the lawe, or the prophets.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- But it is in our power, if not to dissanull, at least to diminish the same, through patience […].
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.3.6:
- it is possible […] out of mature judgment to avoid the effect, or disannul the cause, as they do that are troubled with toothache, pull them quite out.