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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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37 words match “NIHIL”

Nothing. Nihil album Etym: [L., white nothing] (Chem.), oxide of zinc. See under Zinc. -- Nihil debet Etym: [L., he owes nothing] (Law), the general issue in certain actions of debt. -- Nihil dicit Etym: [L., he says nothing] (Law), a declinature by the defendant to plead or answer. Tomlins.

NIHILISM n. 3 definitions

Nothingness; nihility.

NIHILIST n. 2 definitions

One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism.

Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

Capable of being annihilated.

ANNIHILATE v. 4 definitions

roy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.

ANNIHILATION n. 2 definitions

ts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

ANNIHILATIONIST n.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

ANNIHILATIVE a.

Serving to annihilate; destructive.

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

ANNIHILATORY a.

SELF-ANNIHILATED a.

Annihilated by one's self.

SELF-ANNIHILATION n.

Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires. Addison.

ANIENT; ANIENTISE v.

To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

CONSCIOUSNESS n.

ption of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention. Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation. Sir W. Hamilton. And, when the steam Which overflowed the soul had passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images a…

To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. Jer. xii. 17.

DESTRUCTIONIST n.

One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley.

te greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. Spenser.