of none effect

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. [1913 Webster]

That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.Manifestation; expression; sign. [1913 Webster]

All the large effects That troop with majesty.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. [1913 Webster]

The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause.— Whewell.[1913 Webster]

4.Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. [1913 Webster]

Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect.— J. C. Shairp.[1913 Webster]

The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.— W. Irving.[1913 Webster]

5.Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect. [1913 Webster]

6.Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to. [1913 Webster]

They spake to her to that effect.— 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.[1913 Webster]

7.The purport; the sum and substance. "The effect of his intent." --Chaucer.

8.Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. [1913 Webster]

No other in effect than what it seems.— Denham.[1913 Webster]

9.pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. [1913 Webster]

For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement.

In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above.

Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." --Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." --Shak.

To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results.

To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims. --Shak.

Syn: Effect, Consequence, Result.

Usage: These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends. A result is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its consequences, but can rarely discover its final results. [1913 Webster]

Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.— Cowper.[1913 Webster]

Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die.— Milton.[1913 Webster]