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abrogate

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ab·ro·gate  (br-gt)
tr.v. ab·ro·gat·ed, ab·ro·gat·ing, ab·ro·gates
To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
[Latin abrogre, abrogt- : ab-, away; see ab-1 + rogre, to ask; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
abro·gation n.
abro·gative adj.
abro·gator n.
abrogate
Verb
[-gating, -gated] to cancel (a law or an agreement) formally [from Latin ab- away + rogare to propose a law]
abrogation n
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Verb1.abrogate - revoke formally
abolish, get rid of - do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
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Suppose, again, that upon the pretense of an interference with its revenues, it should undertake to abrogate a landtax imposed by the authority of a State; would it not be equally evident that this was an invasion of that concurrent jurisdiction in respect to this species of tax, which its Constitution plainly supposes to exist in the State governments?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
It is the law of nature--no man-made law can abrogate the laws of God.
The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
In the midst of abuses, in the heart of cities, in the aisles of false churches, alike in one place and in another,--wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand, and by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law or school in which it stands, before the law of its own mind.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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