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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abrogate \Ab"ro*gate\, a. [L. abrogatus p. p.]
Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] --Latimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abrogate \Ab"ro*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abrogated}; p. pr &
vb n. {Abrogating}.] [L. abrogatus p. p. of abrogare ab +
rogare to ask require, propose. See {Rogation}.]
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 --South.
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian,
they can not alter or abrogate. --Burke.
2. To put an end to to do away with --Shak.
Syn: To abolish; annul; do away set aside; revoke; repeal;
cancel; annihilate. See {Abolish}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
abrogate
v : revoke formally
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