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abolition|æbəˈlɪʃən|
[a. Fr. abolition, or ? ad. L. abolitiōn-em annulling, amnesty, n. of action from abolēre: see abolish.]
1. The act of abolishing, or putting an end to; the fact of being abolished, or done away with; annulling, destruction, or annihilation.
1529More Suppl. Soules Wks. 1557, 311/2 They by the distruccion of the clergy, meane the clere abolycion of Christes faith. 1533Elyot Castel of Helth 55 (1541) It signifieth a short abolicion or dissolution of nature. a1638Mede Par. 2 Pet. iii. Wks. 1672, iii. 617 We look for a New heaven and a New earth to precede this abolition. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. i. xxii. 286 Requiring onely contrition, even at the last for the abolition of eternal guilt. 1763Ld. Barrington in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 505 IV. 474 He recommended Union and Abolition of party Distinctions. 1792Gouv. Morris Spark's Life & Wr. (1832) III. 29 The abolition of the slave trade is disagreeable to them. 1862H. Spencer First Prin. i. v. §29. (1875) 103 The abolition of an imaginable agency, and the substitution of an unimaginable one. 1875Wood Therap. 375 (1879) The paralysis or quietness must have been due to an abolition of sensation.
b. spec. The abolition of the slave-trade, which, in the end of the 18th and during the 19th centuries, both in the European colonies, and still more in the United States of America, became a great political question, so as to be spoken of familiarly as ‘abolition.’ Hence attrib. as the ‘abolition movement,’ an ‘abolition speech,’ etc.
1788T. Clarkson (title) Essay on the comparative Efficiency of Regulation or Abolition as applied to the Slave-trade. 1808― Hist. of the Abolition II. ii. 118 The author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France. 1863W. Phillips Speeches vi. 132 Dr. Channing has thanked the Abolition party. 1863Kemble Resid. in Georgia 57 Until the late abolition movement.
†2. A putting out of memory; a final overlooking or condoning, an amnesty. Also (in Law) permission to condone an offence, or withdraw from its prosecution.
1606Holland Suetonius 89 After that Cæsar was slaine..all men for feare of troubles and uprores decreed a finall abolition and oblivion of that fact. 1691Blount Law Dict., Abolition, A destroying or putting out of memory; the leave given by the King or Judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Abolition, a destroying or effacing or putting out of memory. |