abrogate

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/(UK)
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/ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/(UK) · /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡeɪt/(UK) · /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/(US) · /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪt/(US) · /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/(UK) · /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡət/(US)

Definition of abrogate

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
    “But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.”
    “Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.”
    “The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.”
    “The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
    “But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.”
    “Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.”
    “The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.”
    “The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes.”
  2. (transitive)To put an end to; to do away with.
  3. (transitive)To block a process or function.

adj

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)Abrogated; abolished.
    “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.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate First attested in 1526, from…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.

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