abrogate

present singular third person abrogates · participle present abrogating · participle past abrogated · past abrogated · alternative obsolete abrogen

1. transitivelawTo annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.First known use First attested in the early 16ᵗʰ century.

   Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.

   1796, Edmund Burke, Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.

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   But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.

   1660, Robert South, “The Scribe instructed, &c.”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume 2, page 252

   The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.

   1961, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in Suicide Act 1961ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 766

   The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes.

   2000, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2000”, in Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette, page A1059

   Synonyms: abolish, annul, countermand, invalidate, nullify, overrule, overturn, quash

2. transitiveTo put an end to; to do away with.First known use First attested in the early 16ᵗʰ century.

   Synonyms: abjure, annihilate, cancel, dissolve, do away with, end, obliterate, obviate

3. transitivemolecular biologyTo block a process or function.

alternative obsolete abrogen

1. archaicnot comparableAbrogated; abolished.First known use First attested from around (1350 to 1470).

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   Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.

   1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 4