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Quash v. t. (past & past part. quashed; pres. part. quashing) (Law) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.

Quash v. t.

To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. "The whales Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed."

To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion. "Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief."

Quash v. i. To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

noun

Quash n. Same as Squash.

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Etymology of 'Quash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quash" Quotes from Famous Books

... him, no doubt;—but even the Queen cannot quash the conviction. The evidence was as clear as noonday. The judge and the jury and the public ...

— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... and he studied with the earnestness of a newly-awakened mind in search of true light. The very face of study and inquiry, in one of such a family as that of his brother the Duke de Mericour, was enough to excite suspicion of Huguenot inclinations. The elder brother tried to quash the folly of the younger, by insisting on his sharing the debaucheries which, whether as priest or monk, or simply as Christian man, it would be his duty to abjure; and at length, by way of bringing ...

— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... against you, in default, in the Court of the Vicarius of the City of Rome: that Vivianus himself has now renounced the world, repents of his injustice to you, and interposes no obstacle to the restitution of your rights. We therefore (if your statements shall prove to be correct) quash the sentence against you, restore you to your country and your property, and that you may be preserved from future molestation, founded on the old sentence against you, we assign you to the guardianship ...

— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

... three times a week at some wellknown seaside hotel and relations, when the thing ran its normal course, became in due course intimate. Then the decree nisi and the King's proctor tries to show cause why and, he failing to quash it, nisi was made absolute. But as for that the two misdemeanants, wrapped up as they largely were in one another, could safely afford to ignore it as they very largely did till the matter was put in the hands of a solicitor who filed a ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... confessors, martyrs, and saints. Falstaff's famous regiment would have volunteered to a man for its propagation or its defence. Henceforth let every unsuccessful litigant have the right to pronounce the verdict of a jury sectional, and to quash all proceedings and retain the property in controversy by seceding from the court-room. Let the planting of hemp be made penal, because it squints toward coercion. Why, the first great secessionist would doubtless have preferred to divide heaven peaceably, would have been ...

— The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V - Political Essays • James Russell Lowell

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