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Abrogate   /ˈæbrəgˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Abrogate  v. t.  (past & past part. abrogated; pres. part. abrogating)  
1.
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. "Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old." "Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate."
2.
To put an end to; to do away with.
Synonyms: To abolish; annul; do away; set aside; revoke; repeal; cancel; annihilate. See Abolish.


adjective
Abrogate  adj.  Abrogated; abolished. (Obs.)





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... ordinary socialists imagine to be on the eve of total abrogation. But they are both alike deceived. The laws which at present regulate the possession of wealth are unjust, because the motives which provoke to its attainment are impure; but no socialism can effect their abrogation, unless it can abrogate also covetousness and pride, which it is by no means yet in the way of doing. Nor can the change be, in any case, to the extent that has been imagined. Extremes of luxury may be forbidden, and agony of penury relieved; but nature intends, and the ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... confession all Lutheran ministers are pledged by an oath when they are ordained. Since the constitution nowhere states that the Augsburg Confession shall be retained, and other confessions of faith may be proposed, it is apparent that the General Synod has the power to abrogate the Augsburg Confession entirely, and to introduce a new and erroneous confession of faith, and consequently to set aside the oath of ordination." (B. 1821, 22.) 7. A further objection to the General ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod • Friedrich Bente
... existence of their chartered privileges and natural rights, not alone the British Crown, but the English people. The disposition of the people of England to reap where they had not sown had become very clear. In April, 1701, Connecticut was named in the bill then introduced in Parliament to abrogate all American charters. She resisted with all her might through her agent, but it passed the second reading, and would have become a law but for the breaking out of the French War. Its principle was ...
— The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 • Daniel Davenport
... with Great Britain the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, by which each party was pledged never to obtain "exclusive control over the said ship canal." When (in 1900) we practically decided to build by the Nicaragua route, and felt we must have exclusive control, it became necessary to abrogate this part of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty was therefore made, by which Great Britain gave up all claim to a share in the control of such a canal, and the United States guaranteed that any isthmian canal built by ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... have never tried it. But the foolish girl is beyond advice. I have had two cooks since Mabel, but one insisted upon whistling in the kitchen and the other served omelette made with one egg. My wants are trifling, as you know, but one cannot abrogate all personal dignity—' ...
— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay


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