annul

t. [In Fr. annuler; Sp. anular; Port. annullar; Ital. an null are; Eccles. Lat. annullo; from ad to, and nullum, acc us neut. of null us = none.] *1. To reduce to nothing. (Used of persons as well as things.) "Truly the like yt han might to do good, and done it not, y crown of worship shall be take from hem, with shame shall they be annulled ."-Chaucer: Tem of Love, bk. iin. "Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eased." Milton: Samson Agonistes . 2. To abrogate, to make void, repeal, nullify, or abolish a law, a legal decision, an obligation, arrangement, or a custom deriving its validity from constituted authority; also to nullify a gift, grant, or promise by whomsoever made. that he should a ume the power of annul ling some judgments and some statutes." - Macaulay Hist. Eng., ch. xiii: "How in an hour the power which gave annuls Its gifts, transferring fame as fleeting too. Byron: Ch. Har ., iii. 18. all subsisting debts shall be forthwith annulled, and all insolvent debtors, reduced to slavery ent debtors, reduced to by their creditors, shall be liberated."-Lewis: Early Rom. Hist ., ch. xii., pt. i., § 16.