Meanings of render abortive in английском

It was now ready, waiting for the elements to render abortive in a few short hours the labour of many days.

It was one of the causes which combined to render abortive both the separatist agitations, and the Spanish intrigues of the period.

The senate had previously decreed it to Metellus; but that decree was thus rendered abortive.

The effort of the marquis to improve the mode of manufacturing iron was thus rendered abortive.

Well, my dear general, that is the project which that little hovel of a Saint-Jean-d'Acre rendered abortive!

A prospect of some alleviation in no long time opened upon me; but this my usual ill fortune rendered abortive.

Some malevolent spirit seemed abroad in the air, that rendered abortive every effort of the gentler divinities to send succor.

But his plans were rendered abortive by the strange malady which about that time began to overcloud his splendid genius.

But his melancholy expectations were, by the interposition of Providence, happily rendered abortive, and his deliverance obtained from the following circumstances.

Thus was this diabolical scheme happily rendered abortive, and the authors of it brought to that condign punishment which their wickedness merited.

The attempt, notwithstanding, was rendered abortive; for the hero, by showing them the head of the Gorgon, at once turned them to stone.

This weather has again rendered abortive my plan of getting the direct line of bearing and distance between Cape Farewell and Cape Albany Otway.

He might, therefore, naturally incur the odium of the patricians, whose importance was diminished, and their institution rendered abortive, by the increase of his power.