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(lithe)
* 1900 — , ch VIII
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.
* 1592 :
* 1653 , Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), (1534), chapter XL
* 1850 , H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich.'', ''Third Decade , The Parker Society, Great Britain, page 32
* 1920 , Charles Whibley, Literary Portraits, Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836909887, page 63
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective lither
is (lithe) or lither can be bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lither
English
Etymology 1
See (lithe)Adjective
(head)- Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lither, lyther, luther, lithere, lidder, from (etyl) . See (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
- Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
- Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
- In thy despite shall ’scape mortality.
- After the same manner a monk--I mean those lither , idle, lazy monks--doth not labour and work, as do the peasant and artificer; doth not ward and defend the country, as doth the man of war; cureth not the sick and diseased, as the physician doth; doth neither preach nor teach, as do the evangelical doctors and schoolmasters; doth not import commodities and things necessary for the commonwealth, as the merchant doth.
- Secondarily, let him which laboreth in his vocation be prompt and active; let him be watchful and able to abide labour; he must be no lither -back1, unapt, or slothful fellow. Whatever he doth, that let him do with faith2 and diligence.
- Thus he sketched an education which might have befitted a great king, without a word of ribaldry or scorn, and in such a spirit as proves that he gravely condemned the lazy, lither system of the monasteries.
Derived terms
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.