† ˈnaufrage Obs.
Also 5 naw-.
[a. F. naufrage (1461), ad. L. naufragium for *nāvifragium, f. nāvi-s ship + frag-, frangĕre to break.]
Shipwreck: a. in figurative uses.
| 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xxi, To gyve her entresignes, by whych she may see appertly the nawfrage and peryll of her husbonde. c 1577 Buchanan Let. Wks. (S.T.S.) 57 Ye being anis escapit the tempestuous stormes and naufrage of mariage. 1628 Sir W. Mure Fancies Farew. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 195 That impetuous streame, Where fynest wits haue frequent naufrage made. 1652 Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 469 To the hazard of their State which hath lately scaped Naufrage. 1715 J. Barker Exilius (1736) Pref., To avoid such dangerous Naufrages, and fix their Affections where Duty and Merit require. |
b. in literal sense. (Chiefly Law.)
| 1623 Cockeram 1, Naufrage, shipwracke. 1635 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 1 Thus then being certaine of naufrage. 1681 Stair Instit. i. x. §24. 132 In no case is the borrower oblieged for any Accident, as Death, Naufrage, Burning, unless he hath undertaken that hazard. 1755 N. Magens Insurances II. 416 No Abandoning can be made, but in Case of Capture, Naufrage, Bulging, Stranding, Embargo..or an entire loss of the Thing insured. |