abrogate

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English

WOTD – 22 September 2009

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Etymology

First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.

Pronunciation

  • (adjective):
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL. enPR: ă.bʹrə.gət, IPA(key): /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡət/
  • (verb):
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL. enPR: ăbʹrōgāt, ăbʹrəgāt, IPA(key): /ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡeɪt/
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/, /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪt/
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Verb

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  1. (transitive, law) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. [First attested in the early 16th century.][2]
    • 1660, Robert South, “The Scribe instructed, &c.”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume 2, page 252:
      But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.
    • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.:
      Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.
  2. (transitive) To put an end to; to do away with. [First attested in the early 16th century.][2]
  3. (molecular biology, transitive) To block a process or function.

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Adjective

abrogate (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Abrogated; abolished. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).][2]
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 4:
      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.

References

  1. ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 4
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrogate”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

Further reading

Italian

Verb

abrogate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of abrogare
  2. second-person plural imperative of abrogare
  3. feminine plural of abrogato

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

(deprecated template usage) abrogāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of abrogō
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