"Quashal" Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu May 17 15:21:50 UTC 2012


OED does not include the word "quashal," meaning "The act of quashing something."  There are about 9500 hits on Google.  Lexis has case citations for the word going back to 1805.



Fred Shapiro

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