Obs. [ad. Fr. frustrer, ad. L. frustrārī: see FRUSTRATE v.]

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  1.  trans. To balk or defraud of something due or expected. Also, to falsify (a prediction).

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1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, xii. 45. Pygmalyon, whiche the wolde haue frustred of the grete tresours & Rychesses that he awayteth to haue of thy somtyme husbande. Ibid., xxii. 80. Prenostycatures of her harde and aduerse fortunes, that to her were frustred.

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  2.  To bring to nought, render useless; to frustrate (an enterprise); to destroy, lay waste, ruin. Also intr. for refl.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxi. 78. Quhen flude and fyre sall our it frak, And frely frustir feild and fure.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 45. [This] wald be caus sone efterwart perchance The commoun weill to fruster and to faill.

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1570.  Satir. Poems Reform., xviii. 50. Bot God, that hes thy Maiestie in cure, Will fruster all thair fulische Interprysis.

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c. 1611.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. IV. The Decay, 1127.

                    Have these that yet doe craul
Upon all foure, and cannot stand, at all,
With-stood your Furie, and repulst your Powrs,
Frust’red your Rams, fired your flying Towrs?

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