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Quotation dates: 1570-1681
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Naufrage, n. (a.) Also: nawfrage. [e.m.E. naufrage (Caxton), F. naufrage (1461), L. naufragium.] Shipwreck. a. fig. b. lit. Also attrib. as adj.a. 1570 Satirical Poems xvii. 14.
In eu ills flude not menand our nawfrage c 1572 Facs. Nat. MSS. III. lxvi.
Ye being anis escapit the tempestuous stormes and naufrage of mariage a1627 Craig v. 26.
My ventring was my wracke … Which made the naufrage of my hurt, my hope, my hap and all1628 Mure Fancies Farewell ii.10.
That impetuous streame … Where fynest wits haue frequent naufrage madeb. 1589 Criminal Trials I. ii. 334.
And almaist foure hundreth souldeours all saife from the nawfrage in our iles 1590 Cal. Sc. P. X. 318.
Who after their naufrage war cruellye spoyled 1681 Stair Inst. i. x. § 24. (1681) 132.
In no case is the borrower oblieged for any accident, as death, naufrage, burning, unless he hath undertaken that hazardadj. 1677 Lauder Notices Affairs I. 171.
Ane admirall can dispone upon no more of naufrage goods than he knew
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