nullo

American  

[nuhl-oh] / ˈnʌl oʊ /

noun

• nullos
  plural

1. (in certain card games) a bid to take no tricks.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• nullos
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of nullo

1590–1600; < Italian: none < Latin nūllus null

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

nullo nullos

There are many things “quae nullo numero explicari possunt,” and to understand these things we must abstract altogether from the idea of number.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

The Attorney-General, on the part of the crown, put in the usual plea, or joinder in error—"In nullo est erratum;" Anglicè, that "there is no error in the record."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

There is also, as we have seen, a method of Deductive Logic resting on the Principles of Consistency and the Dictum de omni et nullo.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

In ch. ix, § 3, the Dictum de omni et nullo was stated: 'Whatever may be predicated of a term distributed may be predicated of anything that can be identified with that term.'

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

What Velleius Paterculus sayd of Cinna, may very justly be sayd of him, Ausum eum quæ nemo auderet bonus, perfecisse quæ a nullo nisi fortissimo perfici possunt.

From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various

"Tali tua membra sepulchro, Talibus exuram Stygio cum carmine Sylvis, Ut nullos cantata Magos exaudiat umbra," said an enchantress, in Lucan, to a spirit she evoked.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas

The thin young lady, who had obliged with the vocal selections, asked the captain if he played "nullos."

From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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