estop
Americanverb (used with object)
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Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
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Archaic. to stop.
verb
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law to preclude by estoppel
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archaic to stop
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Etymology
Origin of estop
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French estopper, Old French estoper to stop up, derivative of estoupe < Latin stuppa tow. Cf. stuff
Example Sentences
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But are expressions of this sort, are mere supplications uttered under duress, to estop every person who utters them, and all his posterity to the end of time, from asking for entire justice?
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Sige's theoretical knowledge of war and his experience were then felt to be so overshadowing to everybody else's as to estop criticism.
From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John
He perceived that the object was to estop, by his admissions, any objections to the course pursued in permitting the Taranteens to leave, which he might afterwards be disposed to make.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill
All these inhibitory influences which generally produce negation do not estop Mr. Hughes.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
I told him that the children were in the habit of getting them from the meadow beyond, hoping to estop the suggestion I knew was coming.
From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret
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