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Feb. 4th, 2005 09:43 amTime for some vocabulary enrichment, kids!
nugation, n. DRAFT REVISION Mar. 2004
Now rare.
Brit. /njugen/, U.S. /nuge()n/ Forms: lME nugacyon, 15 newgacon (see note below), nugacion, 15-16, 19- nugation. [< Anglo-Norman nugacion foolish, futile action (early 13th cent.) and Middle French nugation stupid remark, stupidity, silliness (late 14th cent.) and their etymon post-classical Latin nugatio meaningless proposition, tautology (from c1200 in British sources; a1273 in Aquinas: see quot. 1911), a trifle (15th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin ngt-, past participial stem of ngr to trifle (< ngae NUGAE n.) + -i -ION1. Cf. Old Occitan nugacio stupid remark, stupidity, silliness (c1340), nugatio (c1350), Italian nugazione (1363), nugatione (1611 in Florio) unnecessary repetition in speech or writing.
In form newgacon punningly after the name of Newgate prison (see NEWGATE n.):
1583 W. FLETEWOOD Jrnl. in Coll. Malone Soc. (1911) I. II. 163, I end fearing to trouble your honor wth these trefling Newgacons.]
Triviality, trifling; pointless or meaningless speech or action; an instance of this, a trifle.
c1450 J. CAPGRAVE Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) IV. 2115 Lete other men here hem that loue nugacyon; ffor other many materis must come on hande. ?1540 Britton's Treat. Laws Eng. To Rdr. sig. ii, And the endytours, fyrst makers, and deuysers of the same lernynges moste chefly to be lauded and had in memory, for theyr brefe, pythythye [sic], and substancial wrytynges, without ambages, nugacions, or surplusage. 1581 W. LAMBARDE Eirenarcha (1588) III. i. 318 Conveighing the Riotters unto the gaole: without which the arrest were but nugation. 1583 W. FULKE Def. Transl. Script. (1843) i. 144 Then followeth that vain nugation which I have noted against Saunder. 1602 W. WARNER Albions Eng. Epit. 350 Many impertinent digressions, and some meere nugations. 1626 BACON Sylva ยง836 As for the Received Opinion,..it is but Nugation. 1664 H. MORE Modest Enq. Mystery Iniquity 309 If it were not determined to this sense it would rather be a Nugation..then an Interpretation.
1911 tr. St. T. Aquinas Summa Theol. I. I. xi. 112 It does not follow that any nugation [L. nugatio] exist if we say that being is one.
nugation, n. DRAFT REVISION Mar. 2004
Now rare.
Brit. /njugen/, U.S. /nuge()n/ Forms: lME nugacyon, 15 newgacon (see note below), nugacion, 15-16, 19- nugation. [< Anglo-Norman nugacion foolish, futile action (early 13th cent.) and Middle French nugation stupid remark, stupidity, silliness (late 14th cent.) and their etymon post-classical Latin nugatio meaningless proposition, tautology (from c1200 in British sources; a1273 in Aquinas: see quot. 1911), a trifle (15th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin ngt-, past participial stem of ngr to trifle (< ngae NUGAE n.) + -i -ION1. Cf. Old Occitan nugacio stupid remark, stupidity, silliness (c1340), nugatio (c1350), Italian nugazione (1363), nugatione (1611 in Florio) unnecessary repetition in speech or writing.
In form newgacon punningly after the name of Newgate prison (see NEWGATE n.):
1583 W. FLETEWOOD Jrnl. in Coll. Malone Soc. (1911) I. II. 163, I end fearing to trouble your honor wth these trefling Newgacons.]
Triviality, trifling; pointless or meaningless speech or action; an instance of this, a trifle.
c1450 J. CAPGRAVE Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) IV. 2115 Lete other men here hem that loue nugacyon; ffor other many materis must come on hande. ?1540 Britton's Treat. Laws Eng. To Rdr. sig. ii, And the endytours, fyrst makers, and deuysers of the same lernynges moste chefly to be lauded and had in memory, for theyr brefe, pythythye [sic], and substancial wrytynges, without ambages, nugacions, or surplusage. 1581 W. LAMBARDE Eirenarcha (1588) III. i. 318 Conveighing the Riotters unto the gaole: without which the arrest were but nugation. 1583 W. FULKE Def. Transl. Script. (1843) i. 144 Then followeth that vain nugation which I have noted against Saunder. 1602 W. WARNER Albions Eng. Epit. 350 Many impertinent digressions, and some meere nugations. 1626 BACON Sylva ยง836 As for the Received Opinion,..it is but Nugation. 1664 H. MORE Modest Enq. Mystery Iniquity 309 If it were not determined to this sense it would rather be a Nugation..then an Interpretation.
1911 tr. St. T. Aquinas Summa Theol. I. I. xi. 112 It does not follow that any nugation [L. nugatio] exist if we say that being is one.
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