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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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... and by him have been and are (the rather at the contemplation of your majesties) received and embraced into the unity of Christ's Church, upon our humble submission, and promise made for a declaration of our repentance to repeal and abrogate such acts and statutes as had been made in parliament since the said 20th year of the said King Henry VIII., against the supremacy of the See Apostolic, as in our submission exhibited to the said most Reverend Father in God, by your majesties appeareth—it may like your majesty, ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude
... colleges, with the object of transferring education from religious to secular teachers. These sweeping reforms entailed heavy expenditure and unpopular taxation, and finally brought about the downfall of the Liberal regime in 1884. The Catholics proceeded to abrogate the 1879 law on primary education by giving State grants to the free Catholic schools, and suppressed a number of the secondary schools and training colleges ...
— Belgium - From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day • Emile Cammaerts
... all those who molested or injured that splendid animal. The species, his lordship continued, had been long extinct; but the Vraibleusians, duly reverencing the institutions of their ancestors, had never presumed to abrogate the authority of the Camelopard Court, or invest any other with equal privileges. Therefore, his lordship added, in order to try you in this Court for a modern offence of high treason, you must first be introduced by fiction of law as a stealer of Camelopards, and then being in ...
— The Voyage of Captain Popanilla • Benjamin Disraeli
... 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 us should be ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... acquainted with its resources as he; no one knew better than he what policy ought to be followed. If he had despaired, it was because he foresaw that the situation was hopeless. He had certainly made mistakes; first, in believing that in January it had been Napoleon's serious intention to abrogate personal control of the state, then that of retaining, despite the long hesitation so well known to me, his position as French Envoy to North America, after the plebiscite. That he should now have turned his pistol against his own forehead told me that he regarded the battle as lost, foresaw ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes


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