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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

... on the form of so many kennels of enraged hounds howling to each other across the spiritual waste. And even some who pronounced the Theses scriptural and orthodox shook their heads and sought to quash ...

— Luther and the Reformation: - The Life-Springs of Our Liberties • Joseph A. Seiss

... contract instead of the gangs; to levy a tax on convict labor; to retain men seven years in chains. Boards, or commissions, which gave him the aspect of a mediator or judge, advised him to postpone and quash the disagreeable order or restriction. Thus during his government his influence was paramount, and inferior functionaries were satellites who obeyed his impulse, or were driven from ...

— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West

... Pastor in a boarding-school, I'd quash such books in toto;—if I couldn't, Let me but catch one Miss that broke my rule, I'd flog her soundly; damme ...

— Broad Grins • George Colman, the Younger

... modified form. At Southern public meetings, also, there arose a tendency to insert in resolutions similar expressions. "In Manchester," Spence wrote, "Mr. Lees, J.P., and the strongest man on the board, brought forward a motion for an address on this subject. I went up to Manchester purposely to quash it and ...

— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

... 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 (tuitio) ...

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

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